gEDA-dev: gsch2pcb, xgsch2pcb: searchpath for the pcb libraries

Werner Hoch werner.ho at gmx.de
Fri Jan 4 16:18:40 EST 2008


Hi Peter,

On Freitag, 4. Januar 2008, Peter Clifton wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 21:53 +0100, Werner Hoch wrote:
> > the attached patch adds the missing pcb libs.
> >
> > Please review before applying.
>
> I'm not sure I like coding this into someone's gsch2pcb project file,
> as in theory they should be portable between systems.
>
> It is possible that gsch2pcb needs updating to match current PCB
> library locations. A more palatable patch might just add the extra
> search path to the gsch2pcb invocation at run time (but not save it
> in the project file).

Well, IHMO there's no difference between adding the path to the file and 
adding it as command line parameter to gsch2pcb.
Both are hardcoded into xgsch2pcb.

> In the future (TM), (x)gsch2pcb will defer to PCB to build the
> necessary PCB files, so this bug will go away.

Great ;-)

Regards
Werner


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