Hi all, I just installed the latest gEDA binary suite (gedasuite-linux-x86-0.0.2), but right away, I stumble upon a serious snag: PCB doesn' t see the component footprints I created myself.
I used to keep keep my hundred or so home-brew Newlib-style footprints in /share/pcb/newlib/user_defined; and in previous versions of PCB, this directory duly showed up under "newlib" in PCB's library window, complete with all my footprints. At the most, I had to restart PCB after adding new footprints here. After installing the latest version in my own home directory, I copied this footprint directory to ~/geda-0.0.2/share/pcb/newlib/ -- but nothing shows up. New footprints added to existing newlib directories don't show up either. It's almost as if some path setting is wrong or missing; yet I did add the geda-0.0.2/bin directories to $PATH, and geda-0.0.2/share/man to $MANPATH (I added the export commands to .bash_profile). The only difference with the previous version is that there appears to be no reference any more to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, but adding this path doesn't solve anything. PCB refuses to see any changes in the newlib directory. Adding a .fp extension to footprint files didn't help -- but that's to be expected if PCB doesn't even see new directories under newlib. I also checked the latest PCB manual, but I didn't find anything relating to this problem there either. And of course I searched the mailing list archives. So the question is: what did I do wrong? Thanks in advance, Richard Rasker _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user