Re: gEDA-user: geda-user Digest, Vol 41, Issue 55

[Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 23:51 +0100, Stefan Salewski wrote:

> I do disable m4 footprints with skip-m4 statement (we can do this
> because we have newlib copies for all m4 now).

Not to nit-pick too much - but this isn't true. The file-names used in
the conversion process are _awful_, and clash quite a lot, so many are
missing.

Take some of my favourite examples, the connectors directory:

pcblib-newlib/connector/10.fp

"10" ?

Actually, the m4 footprint name is "connector10" - admittedly rubbish.

Then this:

~/pcbsrc/git/lib/pcblib-newlib$ find . -name 200.fp
./connector/200.fp
./generic/200.fp

connector/200.fp is a huge connector, This comes from the M4 footprint
name (actually a macro invocation) "MOLEX_025 200".

generic/200.fp is a radial capacitor, coming from the M4 invocation
"RADIAL_CAN 200"


My personal (and probably controversial) advice is to use the M4
library. The "newlib" one is in far poorer shape.




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