Am Dienstag, 4. Januar 2005 14:06 schrieb Stuart Brorson: > I have built a private copy of libgeda implementing my search path: > > $system/gafrc > $home/gafrc > ./gafrc > $system/gschemrc > $home/gschemrc > ./gschemrc
That's nice. I like it that way. > > It works fine. The only problem is that I get a warning when it tries > to find the "required system-gafrc" file: > > Did not find required system-gafrc file > [/usr/local/geda/share/gEDA/system-gafrc] Did not find optional > ~/.gEDA/gafrc file [/home/sdb/.gEDA/gafrc] > Read local gafrc file [./gafrc] > Read system-gschemrc file [/usr/local/geda/share/gEDA/system-gschemrc] > Did not find optional ~/.gEDA/gschemrc file [/home/sdb/.gEDA/gschemrc] > Did not find optional local gschemrc file [./gschemrc] That's not a problem, that's a feature. During every startup I can check what rc files are read. Leave it like it is!! > > However, differentiating between optional and required files can be > handled in another way than what we do now. > > I like Peter's suggestion that the system-commonrc become the > system-gafrc. This is a good first step on the road to migrating > towards using gafrc everywhere & deprecating the old g[schem | netlist > > | attrib | symcheck]rc system. It does require some changes to the > > *rc.in files -- particularly in the symbols directory -- but that I > don't mind doing. > > I don't think the old system should go away; that might cause breakage > of legacy schematics. However, we can incorporate the new gafrc > system while deprecating the old system for new designs. Please leave the old gschemrc, gnetlistrc ..... . They are necessary for setups of a single program only. > > One question: If I make changes to libgeda, I would like to have > folks test my stuff. Are there any volunteers out there who are > willing to get stuff out of CVS, build it and test it when I post an > update? Peter? Ok, I can do that. > > In general, it would be a good thing to have a few beta testers who > can verify that the code in CVS builds reliability. > > Stuart >
