Re: gEDA-user: complete project sample?

2010-04-11 Thread John Griessen
DJ Delorie wrote: PCB will look for ./pcb.settings at startup. You can set the library paths there. Sounds perfect. Same way as in a ~/.pcb/preferences line? I'm ready to test some of your import functions now. Where can I read how to do that? John

Re: gEDA-user: complete project sample?

2010-04-11 Thread DJ Delorie
> When you run gsch2pcb it can use a project file, so maybe there is a command > line way > to start pcb so it will also use a local project file that defines where pcb > footprints > can be found. > > Know of a way to kludge that? PCB will look for ./pcb.settings at startup. You can set the

Re: gEDA-user: complete project sample?

2010-04-11 Thread John Griessen
Here is another free open hardware project I found where the author gives permission to use it for learning and for its library parts. I noticed how Brad Jarvis had used make files to automate his project in a way that was generic enough that it can serve as a template for a new project with a l

Re: gEDA-user: snag building GAF from git

2010-04-11 Thread Felipe De la Puente Christen
I'm using automake 1.11 and autoconf 2.64, compiled gaf yesterday and before without issues with all dependencies from the ubuntu 9.10 up to date amd64 system. ./autogen.sh ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/gEDA make make install May be some autoconf/automake friend app not doing their job well. B

Re: gEDA-user: snag building GAF from git

2010-04-11 Thread John Griessen
Ales Hvezda wrote: [snip] cp -f ./*.scm ; \ [snip] cp: target `./gnetlist.scm' is not a directory [snip] It's repeatable after a make clean. Yeah, that's no good. What version of automake and autoconf: automake (GNU automake) 1.9.6 autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.65

Re: gEDA-user: command line options in the pcb manual

2010-04-11 Thread kai-martin knaak
kai-martin knaak wrote: > I put the command line section of the manual with comments extracted from > source to my webspace: > http://lilalaser.de/tmp/pcb_commandline_options.pdf For some reason the file did not receive the correct permissions on upload. Now fixed. ---<)kaimartin(>--- -- Kai-

Re: gEDA-user: snag building GAF from git

2010-04-11 Thread Stuart Brorson
[snip!] ... Stuart was running some unholy old version of Fedora (heh, there I said it again, Stuart :-) [snip!] Heh. Actually, it was SuSE 9.3 pretty unholy nonetheless, I suppose. Anyway, I suspect old autotools are messing up somehow, since this seems to be due to a problem in g

Re: gEDA-user: snag building GAF from git

2010-04-11 Thread Ales Hvezda
[snip] >INSTALL and README seem very simple now, so I think I followed all the steps. >The simplicity is nice Ales. Any ideas how to get past this: Actually, I had very little to do with the README, INSTALL, or the simplified build. You can thank PeterB and PeterC for all that. [snip

gEDA-user: command line options in the pcb manual

2010-04-11 Thread kai-martin knaak
The command line option section of the pcb manual is totally out of sync with the current binary. Almost none of the options mentioned there still works as described. A few weeks a go, I did a first stab to derive the entries in the manual from special comments in the source like it is already

Re: gEDA-user: complete project sample?

2010-04-11 Thread Stephan Boettcher
Eric Brombaugh writes: > On Apr 11, 2010, at 2:59 AM, Stephan Boettcher wrote: >> >> microSD are not required to support the SPI protocol. Do they usually >> do? What brands? > > Interesting. I've tried a half-dozen different brands and haven't had > any trouble with SPI support. Sandisk, Kings

Re: gEDA-user: snag building GAF from git

2010-04-11 Thread John Griessen
John Griessen wrote: Stuart Brorson wrote: 2. That didn't work, so I just put the following line into gaf/gnetlist/scheme/Makefile: builddir = . After doing your wrok around compile completed, but gschem failed with could not find libgeda.so.38 I found this in newly created /opt/geda dir:

Re: gEDA-user: snag building GAF from git

2010-04-11 Thread John Griessen
Stuart Brorson wrote: Hi -- Any ideas how to get past this: cp: target `./gnetlist.scm' is not a directory make[3]: *** [all-local] Error 1 It's repeatable after a make clean. Ugh. I had this problem at the last code sprint. I did two things: 1. I nuked my entire source directory and g

Re: gEDA-user: snag building GAF from git

2010-04-11 Thread Stuart Brorson
Hi -- Any ideas how to get past this: cp: target `./gnetlist.scm' is not a directory make[3]: *** [all-local] Error 1 It's repeatable after a make clean. Ugh. I had this problem at the last code sprint. I did two things: 1. I nuked my entire source directory and got a fresh one from the

Re: gEDA-user: gnetlist

2010-04-11 Thread Paul Tan
Hi Levente Kovacs, gnetlist front end(the C/SCM part) already support the non-flatten hierarchical netlist formats including BUS, such as Verilog, VHDL, Spice, GnuCap, etc., depending on the state of the gnetlist backend support. The Spice back end netlister (gnet-spice-sdb.scm) provides some sup

gEDA-user: snag building GAF from git

2010-04-11 Thread John Griessen
INSTALL and README seem very simple now, so I think I followed all the steps. The simplicity is nice Ales. Any ideas how to get past this: Making all in scheme make[3]: Entering directory `/moredata/src-geda-others/gaf/gnetlist/scheme' sed \ -e 's;@m4@;/usr/bin/m4;g' \

Re: gEDA-user: gnetlist

2010-04-11 Thread Duncan Drennan
> Is there any way to create PCAD netlist with gEDA? In the past I exported a netlist in the tango format which PCAD can import. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: complete project sample?

2010-04-11 Thread Patrick
Wow, any lingering doubts about whether gDEA could be used for a complex circuit are extinguished!, thanks-Patrick Stefan Salewski wrote: On Sat, 2010-04-10 at 17:42 -0400, Patrick wrote: Hi Everyone I am slowly getting the picture and starting to understand the work flow in gDEA. However

Re: gEDA-user: complete project sample?

2010-04-11 Thread Stefan Salewski
On Sat, 2010-04-10 at 17:42 -0400, Patrick wrote: > Hi Everyone > > I am slowly getting the picture and starting to understand the work flow > in gDEA. However it would be really great to have a complete project to > tinker with. Are there any sample projects that would have files that > were u

Re: gEDA-user: complete project sample?

2010-04-11 Thread Eric Brombaugh
On Apr 11, 2010, at 2:59 AM, Stephan Boettcher wrote: > John Luciani writes: > >> On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 6:58 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: >>> I can think of a few uses for your USB GPIO pod!-Patrick >>> >>> I use it mostly for testing out new components. I have added a >>> micro-sd module f

Re: gEDA-user: complete project sample?

2010-04-11 Thread Eric Brombaugh
On Apr 10, 2010, at 8:11 PM, John Luciani wrote: > On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 9:48 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: >> >> Yes, I got microsd working. Next time, though, I'm putting a P-MOSFET >> on the power line so I can software power cycle it. >> http://www.delorie.com/tmp/microsd.c > > Excellent. Thank

gEDA-user: GTKWave file formats

2010-04-11 Thread Tom Hawkins
Of the various formats supported by GTKWave (VCD, LXT, LXT2, VZT, FST, GHW), is there any consensus on which format has the best balance of file size and speed of parsing/generating? Are these formats formally defined anywhere? Currently our tool chains are based on VCD. But I'm starting a new r

gEDA-user: gnetlist

2010-04-11 Thread Levente Kovacs
Hi, I can't find any documentation about the hierachy support in gnetlist http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:gnetlist_ug#hierarchy_support Is there any documentation about hierarchy support? Is there any way to create PCAD netlist with gEDA? Thanks, Levente -- Levente Kovacs http://logonex.eu

Re: gEDA-user: complete project sample?

2010-04-11 Thread Stephan Boettcher
John Luciani writes: > On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 6:58 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: >> >>> I can think of a few uses for your USB GPIO pod!-Patrick >> >> I use it mostly for testing out new components. I have added a >> micro-sd module for it, and most recently it's wired up to a new >> ethernet chip fro