gEDA-user: gsch2pcb : coming up empty

[Andy Peters]

On Jan 3, 2007, at 8:03 AM, Hans Nieuwenhuis wrote:

> Sorry for me jumping in, but I remembered a situation a while ago
> having the same problem also. The cause of the problem is the  
> dashes in
> the filename of the footprint. If the OP had not used multiple dashes
> there would not have been a problem. After I figured out I forgot  
> about
> it and I should have filed a bug instead.

That's not it; John Luciani's library is full of parts with all  
manner of dashes and underscores.

> Gsch2pcb produces a garbled pcb file if there are dashes inside a
> symbol filename. Attached is a sample project that does produce a
> garbled pcb file (line 57) on my system. Yes, I know,  
> electronically it
> isn't a very good design :-).
>
> Version info:
>
> guile 1.6.7
> gsch2pcb 1.5
> gschem 20061020
> pcb CVS (mid-december)

Yep, that craps out, too ...

-a