Re: gEDA-user: Schematic import (was why separate xgsch2pcb?)
On Sun, 2010-02-21 at 11:26 +, Peter Clifton wrote: Looks like a mistake.. PCB has defgnetlist hard-coded rather than gnetlist. Try with this environment variable set as a work-around for now: PCB_GNETLIST=gnetlist This is no longer necessary.. I fixed the hard-coded default to be gnetlist rather than defgnetlist. Peter C. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
Re: gEDA-user: Schematic import (was why separate xgsch2pcb?)
On Feb 21, 2010, at 5:47 AM, Vanessa Ezekowitz wrote: On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 08:14:42 -0500 (EST) Stuart Brorson s...@cloud9.net wrote: There is a bug in the git version of PCB. If you put your newlib footprints in a directory, the library import stuff can't find them. The library import stuff looks in *subdirectories* of your footprint directory. This has to do with the way the importer works, as well asl how the library data inside PCB is structured. If you want to use the git stuff, put your footprints in a directory *under* ~/GEDA/www/user/vanessa_ezekowitz/footprints/ (example: ~/GEDA/www/user/vanessa_ezekowitz/footprints/myfootprints). I've been fiddling with creating a fix for this, but it's slow going since I need to learn about how PCB itself works. I ran into this a while back too, which is why I use a symlink. In actuality, PCB is configured to look in /home/vanessa/ Footprints. Contained within that directory is a symlink named Custom, which points to /home/vanessa/GEDA/www/user/ vanessa_ezekowitz/footprints , where the actual footprint files reside. Without it, I'd see vanessa_ezekowitz as my top level, and symbols, footprints, attic and CVS under that. This way, PCB just shows Footprints - Custom and I don't have to disturb the layout of my repository. :-) At any rate, PCB's Library dialog can find and use the files just fine, it's just the Import function that doesn't. Two thoughts. what is the exact config line you used? did you put in ~/Footprints or /home/vanessa/Footprints, I am wondering if the importer is not decoding the ~ Out of curiosity, if you were to temporarily make a copy of the contents of /home/vanessa/GEDA/www/user/vanessa_ezekowitz/footprints to ~/GEDA/www/user/vanessa_ezekowitz/footprints/custom does it work. Is the importer not following soft links? Steve ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
Re: gEDA-user: Schematic import (was why separate xgsch2pcb?)
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
Re: gEDA-user: Schematic import (was why separate xgsch2pcb?)
On Sun, 2010-02-21 at 03:13 -0600, Vanessa Ezekowitz wrote: Since the Schematic Import was still giving me troubles, I've upgraded to GEDA 1.6.1 and pulled the latest PCB changes from GIT, uninstalled it, checked that there are no obvious references to PCB or GEDA anywhere under /usr/local (including that symlink that was previously needed), rebuilt and reinstalled. So now, the prefixes for PCB and GEDA are definitely the same. :-) As before, I've copied a known working schematic to ~/test.sch, and saved an empty board layout as ~/test.pcb, with test as the name on the layout. I then try to Import Schematics, but it looks like things have taken a slight backward step: I am greeted with that single-line error message in the message log that cropped up before: Can't add rat lines because no netlist is loaded. The only message on the controlling terminal is: Could not open actions file /tmp/pcb.XXXCNCim/gnetlist_output So as before I ran PCB via strace. The trace indicates that PCB is trying to find and run defgnetlist (and it checks in several places, including /usr/bin) with test.sch as one of the arguments. There are no executables anywhere in my $PATH that start with def. Did I miss a step? Looks like a mistake.. PCB has defgnetlist hard-coded rather than gnetlist. Try with this environment variable set as a work-around for now: PCB_GNETLIST=gnetlist (Use a full path if necessary). Peter C ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
Re: gEDA-user: Schematic import (was why separate xgsch2pcb?)
There is a bug in the git version of PCB. If you put your newlib footprints in a directory, the library import stuff can't find them. The library import stuff looks in *subdirectories* of your footprint directory. This has to do with the way the importer works, as well asl how the library data inside PCB is structured. If you want to use the git stuff, put your footprints in a directory *under* ~/GEDA/www/user/vanessa_ezekowitz/footprints/ (example: ~/GEDA/www/user/vanessa_ezekowitz/footprints/myfootprints). I've been fiddling with creating a fix for this, but it's slow going since I need to learn about how PCB itself works. Good luck, Stuart On Sun, 21 Feb 2010, Vanessa Ezekowitz wrote: On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:26:19 + Peter Clifton pc...@cam.ac.uk wrote: PCB_GNETLIST=gnetlist Setting this variable (I used the full path) gets the import function working and gets me back to the point I was at in the other thread: I have PCB configured to look in ~/GEDA/www/user/vanessa_ezekowitz/footprints/ (by way of a symlink, for readability), and the Library dialog lets me pick and place them as desired, but the Schematic Import function can't find them when they're called for in the schematic. The connections to/from those components seem to be present in the generated netlist, though. Two example schematics: http://starbase.globalpc.net/~ezekowitz/vanessa/hobbies/projects/Stereo-SID-0.1.1.sch http://starbase.globalpc.net/~ezekowitz/vanessa/hobbies/projects/powersid-0.2.3.sch (if any of the symbols come up missing, they're in my gedasymbols.org repository.. I'm still getting used to embedding my symbols) -- There are some things in life worth obsessing over. Most things aren't, and when you learn that, life improves. http://starbase.globalpc.net/~ezekowitz Vanessa Ezekowitz vanessaezekow...@gmail.com ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
Re: gEDA-user: Schematic import (was why separate xgsch2pcb?)
On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 08:14:42 -0500 (EST) Stuart Brorson s...@cloud9.net wrote: There is a bug in the git version of PCB. If you put your newlib footprints in a directory, the library import stuff can't find them. The library import stuff looks in *subdirectories* of your footprint directory. This has to do with the way the importer works, as well asl how the library data inside PCB is structured. If you want to use the git stuff, put your footprints in a directory *under* ~/GEDA/www/user/vanessa_ezekowitz/footprints/ (example: ~/GEDA/www/user/vanessa_ezekowitz/footprints/myfootprints). I've been fiddling with creating a fix for this, but it's slow going since I need to learn about how PCB itself works. I ran into this a while back too, which is why I use a symlink. In actuality, PCB is configured to look in /home/vanessa/Footprints. Contained within that directory is a symlink named Custom, which points to /home/vanessa/GEDA/www/user/vanessa_ezekowitz/footprints , where the actual footprint files reside. Without it, I'd see vanessa_ezekowitz as my top level, and symbols, footprints, attic and CVS under that. This way, PCB just shows Footprints - Custom and I don't have to disturb the layout of my repository. :-) At any rate, PCB's Library dialog can find and use the files just fine, it's just the Import function that doesn't. -- There are some things in life worth obsessing over. Most things aren't, and when you learn that, life improves. http://starbase.globalpc.net/~ezekowitz Vanessa Ezekowitz vanessaezekow...@gmail.com ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
