Re: gEDA: gschem2pcb question

[ahvezda@cybercom.net]

Hi Chris,


>I stumbled across a feature of gschem2pcb yesterday.


  Hehe, yeah, "feature". 


>
>If I have a schematic with a component that has "footprint=SMD 8" in its
>symbol file (.sym), gschem2pcb correctly creates the right footprint in
>the pcb file.


   Ok.


>
>If I add an attribute "footprint=SMD 8" to a component on the
>schematics, gschem2pcb complains that "Error: the footprint SMD for the
>device U2 does not exist".

   I just took a brief look at gschem2pcb and it seems that the
footprint comes from whatever gnet-PCBboard.scm spits out.  
Looking at gnet-PCBboard.scm the footprint is found by:

...
(gnetlist:get-package-attribute uref "footprint") 
...

   which is not handling the "attribute attached to the outside 
is also valid" case.  So this is a bug.  I will deal with this
(among other bugs, now that I'm on the net for now) this evening.


>
>Is there a trick I don't know ?


   The only trick I know of is send e-mail to geda-dev with a 
bug report and then pester Ales till it gets fixed. =)   
   
   Thanks for the bug report.  

                                                          -Ales