gEDA-user: CVS gnetlist & gsch2pcb problems

[Dan McMahill]

Stuart Brorson wrote:

> One final note:  While looking at the .scm files today, I noticed some
> hard-coded paths in gnet-gsch2pcb.scm and gnet-PCBboard.scm.  I'll put
> it on the list to eliminate those....

Note that those are set at configure time so while they are hard coded 
in the files which get installed, they are not hard coded in the sources 
we distribute.

Also note that the gsch2pcb program generates an override file that 
redefines those paths based on your gsch2pcb project file.  In other 
words, those hardcoded values are simply defaults used when the gsch2pcb 
project file doesn't explicitly set them.

Also, when building gnetlist, you can get the right defaults for your 
system with

--with-pcbm4dir=/path/to/pcbinstall/share/pcb/m4

This is something packagers of gnetlist and pcb should do.  If your CD 
doesn't do it already, it should.  If you don't specify --with-pcbm4dir, 
it defaults to ${datadir}/pcb/m4 so if you used the same --prefix for 
geda as you did for pcb you'll get the correct defaults automatically.


-Dan