On Mar 2, 2009, at 7:49 AM, DJ Delorie wrote: > >> When building PCB we get for each footprint file *.fp a png image >> *.png. >> For what is this image necessary? > > We make HTML files also, so you can browse the library with a web > browser. > >> If I remember correctly there was a statement on this list telling >> that >> current pcb generates newlib copies for all the m4 footprints. This >> may >> be fine for most people, but is there an option to disable this >> behavior >> if someone does not like it? > > If we disable it, those footprints won't be available, at least on > Windows, which doesn't have m4. We're trying to get rid of the > runtime dependency on m4. >
i depend on the runtime M4 for my part library, i hope that, this could have been read as were making runtime M4 optional. yes i could switch to newlib.... and compile my sources, but that requires me to switch the environments of about 5 other engineers. > > _______________________________________________ > geda-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
