Peter Clifton wrote:
On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 14:20 +0200, Stefan Salewski wrote:
Dan McMahill wrote:
--skip-m4 really really should have made this problem go away if you're
using the one from geda-20070216.
Seems that you are right.
I just tried this option again and it really solves the problem
resulting from footprint name
SOT23-95P-280L1-5N__LTC_S5_Package
Maybe I have made a typo yesterday or forgot to delete all old files
before launching gsch2pcb again.
Sorry.
But using gsch2pcb-option --use-files does not help.
--use-files doesn't stop M4 elements being used (it just causes gsch2pcb
to prefer newlib footprints over M4 ones).
(M4 is a macro processing language which is used to generate the oldlib
footprint code on the fly from a macro definition.)
What can I do if my schematics contain (newlib) footprints from John
Luciani containing many minus signs (-), but I still need some oldlib M4
footprints. Do I have to rename all newlib footprints which contain
multiple minus signs?
For now, renaming seems the easiest option to mix M4 and non-M4
generated footprints.
You might also convert the oldlib M4 footprints into individual files
(Dan will be able to say more about how this is done), then you can use
--skip-m4.
yeah, look at pcb/lib/m4lib_to_newlib.sh for converting an entire
library. Or else you can use pcb/lib/QueryLibrary.sh for individuals.
We should be able to fix this more comprehensively in a future release,
which may either:
a) Fix the original M4 problem with "-" names
and/or:
I don't think this is really possible. You can't use "a-b" as a
variable name in C either.
b) Ship all oldlib footprints pre-converted into separate files.
already done starting with the pcb-20070208 release ;)
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