On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 16:31 -0600, Vanessa Ezekowitz wrote: > Steven Michalske <smichal...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Out of curiosity, if you were to temporarily make a copy of the contents > > [...] > > Changing out the symlink for a real directory full of files didn't > help, but I believe I have found the problem: > > Normally when you reference a stock footprint in a schematic, you do > so by name, without any suffixes, e.g. you specify "RCY100" instead of > "RCY100.fp". This is how I reference my custom footprints as well, > and it's enough to satisfy gsch2pcb. > > I tried changing all references to my custom footprints in the > schematic to include ".fp", and sure enough, it works. The Import > function finds them just fine this way. > > This of course represents a significant change in behavior, so I'd > have to suggest that the suffix be made optional in the Import > function.
Indeed.. sounds like a bug in the import function. It shouldn't need the ".fp" at all. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user