gEDA-user: CVS gnetlist & gsch2pcb problems

[Stuart Brorson]

On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Dan McMahill wrote:
> 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.

Doh!  I just looked in the source directory, and you are right -- the
source files are of form foo.scm.in.

> 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.

Hmmm, Thanks for pointer.  No, my CD doesn't do this, so I need to fix
it.  My bad, and I am glad you pointed this out!

I need to release a new CD soon, so I'll be including this fix in teh
new release Any Day Now....

Stuart (who must now go wipe the egg off his face....)