On Thu, 22 May 2008 21:26:05 -0500, Paul Probert wrote: > It feels like it is seeing the first part of the footprint name SOT23 > and then barfing on what the -6 means.
The reason is a known non-feature of the netlister. By default, it tries to deduce parameters for a beast called M4 library from the name. If this fails, an incomplete pcb file is written anyway. This hit me too, when I was new to geda/pcb. Very frustrating. > Note, running gsch2pcb -f makes no difference. You may try gsch2pcb --skip-m4 if none of the footprints is from the m4 library. You can put this switch along with other options in a project file (without the leading dashes). See the tutorial for details. By the way, it looks like there is no man page for gschem2pcb. Do gschem2pcb -? instead. > Any ideas? I can fix my immediate problem by renaming the offending > footprint and file using _ instead of - This is what I did. IMHO this is one of the most offending warts in a gschem-gsch2pcb-pcb workflow. If gsch2pcb can't be taught to automatically do the right thing, it should at minimum issue a verbose and explicit error message and exit gracefully. If even this is too much to ask for, M4 interpretation of names should be off by default. ---<(kaimartin)>--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak http://lilalaser.de/blog _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
