gEDA-user: gsch2pcb : coming up empty

[Andy Peters]

On Jan 2, 2007, at 6:01 PM, John Griessen wrote:
> Andy Peters wrote:
>> Happy New Year, gang ...
>> I tried to run gsch2pcb to get the PCB files, using:
>> $  andy$ gsch2pcb -v --use-files --elements-dir /Users/andy/ 
>> Library/gEDA/pcb power.sch > gs.txt
>> and I get an odd failure.  The three components on the schematic  
>> that use footprints in my library (~/Library/gEDA/pcb/asp/) are  
>> not handled by the netlister.
> .
> .
> .
>> If I change
>> the footprint to something in John's library (anything, it doesn't  
>> matter), the component is processed properly and the footprint is  
>> found.
>> So, what causes gsch2pcb to crap out like this?
> Have you got a file in the local dir called gafrc
> with contents like:
> lib-newlib = /home/john/EEProjects/now/circuitboards/footprints_pcb?
>
> If not, and you're using the latest code, you need it.

I have a gafrc in ~/.gEDA, which includes the component-library lines  
for all of my symbol libraries.

I don't have the elements-dir line in gafrc (I didn't know it could/ 
should be there), but my command-line has one, and I know that it's  
being honored because if I change the footprint= line in the  
schematic that references the bad footprint with a good footprint in  
my library directory, it works.  (Apologies for the run-on sentence!)

I created a project file which includes a use-files directive and an  
elements-dir line, and used that instead of the command-line above  
and it still fails in the same way.

So I think that my footprint is broken, but I dunno how or why!

-a