Ben Jackson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 09:18:06PM -0800, Traylor Roger wrote: >> Guys, >> I pushed forward to pcb with the new .pcb file produced >> by gsch2pcb. The .pcb file created was 6325162 lines long! > > One of the very first bugs I ran into was an infinite loop in a footprint > (I think SIL) caused by the fact that the m4 'for' macro only terminated > on an 'equal', not 'greater than' condition, and SIL derived from DIL and > had some misplaced divide by 2 leading to a loop to something-and-a-half > which is an infinite loop. >
another possibility is that you have a buggy version of m4. Try this: echo "eval(-2/2)" | m4 It will be fairly obvious if you have the broken one. -Dan _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user