Re: gEDA-user: Problem with PCB . . .

[Dan McMahill <dan@mcmahill.net>]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 05:41:39PM -0500, Bill Wilson wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 17:00:10 -0400 (EDT)
> sdb@cloud9.net (Stuart Brorson) wrote:
> 
> 
>     PKG_unknown(unknown,A4,gmin=1e-9)
> 
> and that means gsch2pcb could not find a package for A4.  It
> seems this will happen for the spice symbols you have in the
> schematic since they don't translate into pc board elements.
> PCB doesn't know what PKG_unknown() means, so:
> 
> Try a couple of things:
>   1) If you just run gsch2pcb again, it should move the unknowns
>      out of TrialLayoutBoard.pcb and into TrialLayoutBoard.new.pcb
>      and then you can try running pcb.
>   2) Or, just run "gsch2pcb --remove-unfound xx.sch" (or
>      "gsch2pcb -r xx.sch") and those unknown packages should
>      not appear.
> 

If you have schematic elements which should not go on the board,
you  can add the graphical attribute (like on a sheet border)

> Maybe gsch2pcb should have the default of leaving out the
> PKG_unknown() and just spit out a warning...
> 
 My vote would be to exit with lots of warnings along with a note
 that says you can use --remove-unfound.  Make people reach for
 the rope...

 -Dan

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