I'm trying to created a component for gschem where two separate symbols are 
used to represent a single component because of the large number of signals 
involved.  I found a recommendation in the archives suggesting that this could 
be accomplished by simply setting the reference designator the same for both 
symbols in the schematics.  I have done this and it appears to have worked when 
looking at the geda netlist output.  However, the gnetlist drc2 checker is 
giving me the following errors:

1.  Checking Duplicated References -  Error:  Duplicated Reference U1
2.  Checking Duplicated Slots - Error Duplicated slot of uref U1 

U1 is the component for which I have two symbols and have set the reference 
designator of each to U1.  The slot attribute is set to slot=0 for both 
symbols.  Am I doing anything wrong or is this just a little glitch in the drc 
checker?

I used grenum to initially set the bulk my reference designators.  This seemed 
to be the way to go since I had other components that were slotted and had U1 
which used multiple symbols for which I manually set reference designator 
values prior to running grenum.  As I understand, grenum would not overwrite 
the preassigned reference designators like refdes_renum.  Oddly, grenum seemed 
to work fine with the exception that it assigned U1 to an additional component 
even though U1 had already been used for my multiple symbol component.  
Initially I thought this was the cause of the duplicate references above but 
manually changing the erroneous U1 assignment didn't fix the duplicate 
references problem.  I wanted to point this issue out in case there might be an 
issue with grenum.

I'm running the February 2007 CD version of gEDA.

Thanks for your help.

Ed

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