Hi Wayne, I’ll try to look at it starting tomorrow, so I hope I can give feedback until mid of the week.
Regards, Bernhard On 25.01.2015, at 20:02, Wayne Stambaugh <[email protected]> wrote: > On 1/25/2015 10:29 AM, Nick Østergaard wrote: >> 2015-01-23 14:42 GMT+01:00 Wayne Stambaugh <[email protected]>: >>> As you all know, we have had many users struggle with setting up the >>> environment variables used in the footprint library table and 3D model >>> code. The attached patch sets the process environment variables >>> KIGITHUB and KISYS3DMOD. KIGITHUB should work for all platforms since >>> it is the URL for the kicad library repos on GitHub which is always >>> https://github.com/KiCad. KISYS3DMOD uses the 3D model library install >>> path created during the CMake configuration. This works fine for me on >>> windows and linux. OSX may be a different story due to the way the >>> bundle paths are defined. Would on of the OSX devs please test this and >>> give me some feedback? Please don't forget to remove these environment >>> variables that are set elsewhere. Otherwise, the environment variable >>> in this patch will be ignored. My guess is that if we get the default >>> environment variable set correctly that it would solve the problem for >>> the largest percentage of users until I get some time to work on the >>> dialog to edit them. I will also add KISYSMOD to this code once have >>> the default OSX paths established. >> >> What would the default KISYSMOD be? I currently set it to >> /usr/share/kicad/footprints in my kicad-pretty-git AUR package [1]. >> >> [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/kicad-pretty-git/ >> > > The default KISYSMOD on Linux would be > /usr/local/share/kicad/footprints. However, this can be changed during > the CMake configuration by passing -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/install/path. > My guess is that packagers set this to /usr instead of the default > /usr/local when building distro specific KiCad packages. The default > should always correctly point to the correct path as long a the library > install path is also set to the same path as the source build install > path. The problem child is OSX because of the way the install paths are > defined so I still need an answer from the OSX devs before I commit this > patch. The Windows NSIS installer can also be problematic if the user > installs KiCad anywhere but the default path which is c:\Program Files. > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
_______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
