gEDA-user: Re: random observations

[Andy Peters]

On Jan 4, 2007, at 3:11 AM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:

> On Thu, 04 Jan 2007 01:06:09 -0700, Andy Peters wrote:
>
>> + If you give a pin a pinlabel that includes parentheses (or perhaps
>> simply has a close parenthesis as the last character), for  
>> example, VOut
>> (tab), the ExecuteFile(boardname.cmd) complains with "unknown  
>> action `)'"
>
> A preprocessor that checks for malformed net names, refdes, pin  
> labels,
> and values is generally missing. Such a cript would have saved my a  
> bunch
> of head scratching.

My favorite is gsymcheck, which will print out ">>>> Read garbage in  
symbol foo.sym" and yet report that the symbol is perfect.

-a