gEDA-user: gsch2pcb : coming up empty

[Andy Peters]

On Jan 2, 2007, at 8:28 PM, John Luciani wrote:

> On 1/2/07, Andy Peters <devel at latke.net> wrote:
>> On Jan 2, 2007, at 7:59 PM, John Luciani wrote:
>>
>> > On 1/2/07, Andy Peters <devel at latke.net> wrote:
>> >> So I think that my footprint is broken, but I dunno how or why!
>> >>
>> >> -a
>> >
>> > If your footprint is a simple newlib footprint you may want to post
>> > it.
>>
>> Actually, I did, in the message that started this thread, but I'll
>> include it here (in case this list rejects attachments).  It's called
>> SOT223-230P-650W-356L-4N.
>>
>
> That symbol loaded for me without any problems.

Loaded into pcb directly, or brought in when used as a footprint  
attribute attached to a symbol?

Now I can't get ANY footprint to load from the symbol.

I've spent all evening screwing with this ... trying various  
combinations of different footprints, changing attributes using  
gattrib or editing the symbols (either in emacs or using gschem) and  
I can't get it to work.  I'm looking through gsch2pcb.c, trying (and  
mostly failing) to understand what it's doing and how it works with  
gnet-gsch2pcb.scm.  I'm not enough of a programmer to figure out how  
to load gsch2pcb into gdb and debug it,  Maybe there's a way to get  
it to build and debug using Xcode, but I don't know how.

I give up.  Sorry.

-a