Peter TB Brett wrote: > On Thursday 27 September 2007 17:26:34 Dave N6NZ wrote: >> Peter TB Brett wrote: >>> Please run gschem with the following lines in your gafrc: >>> >>> (display (string-append "gEDA data directory: " geda-data-path "\n")) >> /sw/share/gEDA >> >>> (display (string-append "gEDA RC file directory: " geda-rc-path "\n")) >> /sw/etc/gEDA > > Thanks -- as I thought, they've separated the system configuration files from > the regular scripts. Correct me if I'm wrong: > > > 1. /sw/etc/gEDA/gschem-darkbg exists. yes
> > 2. geda-rc-path is equal to /sw/etc/gEDA. yes > > 3. (load (build-path geda-rc-path "gschem-darkbg")) appears to fail[1]. yes > > > If so, that is extremely odd, and I can't work out why it might be the > case... > can you please stick this expression in your gafrc and see what it outputs? > > (display (build-path geda-rc-path "gschem-darkbg")) chokes! methinks perhaps a lower level error? prompt:~ dave$ gschem gEDA/gschem version 1.2.0.20070902 gEDA/gschem comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; see COPYING for more details. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; please see the COPYING file for more details. gEDA data directory: /sw/share/gEDA gEDA RC file directory: /sw/etc/gEDA Probably parenthesis mismatch in /Users/dave/gafrc Most recently read form: ([EMAIL PROTECTED] (build-path geda-rc-path gschem-darkbg)) Probably parenthesis mismatch in /sw/etc/gEDA/system-gschemrc Most recently read form: ([EMAIL PROTECTED] (build-path geda-rc-path gschem-darkbg)) Failed to read init scm file [(null)/gschem.scm] Tried to get an invalid color: 0 Loading schematic [/Users/dave/untitled_1.sch] Tried to get an invalid color: 0 Tried to get an invalid color: 7 Tried to get an invalid color: 0 Tried to get an invalid color: 7 > > > We'll get to the bottom of this! > > Peter > > > [1] The (not particularly complicated) definition of the build-path function > is given in geda.scm. Which you would expect live where? prompt:/sw dave$ find . -name geda.scm -print prompt:/sw dave$ !! -dave _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

