gEDA: Re: gEDA-user: interface beteen gschem2pcb and pcb

[Ales Hvezda <ahvezda@seul.org>]

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>Hi guys,
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>Been using pcb-1.7.2 a lot today. Generating some footprints. Run
>into a small problem that I *think* I've got a fix for.
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>gschem2pcb suggests (in the comments near the start) changing the
>pcb file common.m4 so all the include(fred.inc)'s turn into
>include(/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/pcb/m4/fred.inc) so it can find them.
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>This *really* breaks pcb's install process.
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>If you modify common.m4 in the pcb source tree like this, then
>modify (say) fred.inc in the pcb source tree, make builds pcblib
>from the files in /usr...m4/, rather than those in the source tree.
>Then make install changes the files in /usr...m4/. Only _then_ does
>make build the correct pcblib, and Bob help you if you have a parse
>error in your m4 files.
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>Looking at the file /usr/share/gEDA/scheme/gnet-PCBboard.scm, it
>invokes m4 with the full path to common.m4, but no include path set.
>Would it be possible to add
> "-I" *m4-pcbdir*
> 
>to the filename generation line (open-output-pipe (string-append
>" m4" ... ? I tried it, it seems to work ...
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>cheers,Rich.
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