John beat me to the punch with this piece of advice! He's right: By specifying your search paths, you can control where your footprints are coming from. Note that you can also put the search path directives into a "projectrc" file, like Bill Wilson's tutorial says.
Of course, you probably already know this. Another point: I personally avoid the M4 footprints, since I don't understand them well enough to control them. YMMV. Stuart > > You can force the element paths on the gsch2pcb command line. > > gsch2pcb --elements-dir ELEMENT_DIR_NAME \ > --m4-pcbdir M4_DIR_NAME \ > SCH_FILE_NAME > > replacing ELEMENT_DIR_NAME, M4_DIR_NAME and SCH_FILE_NAME with > the appropriate values. > > I believe the default directories for the symbols are > INSTALL_DIR/share/pcb/m4 and > INSTALL_DIR/share/pcb/newlib. > > (* jcl *) > > > On 10/23/05, Harold D. Skank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > People, > > > > I'm running PCB under Red Hat kernel-2.6.9.EL. The latest kernel update > > was install within the last week. The kernel upgrade is the only item I > > can think of that constitutes any substantial recent change to my > > system. > > > > Previously, I have been running the latest release of PCB, pretty much > > since the release. Suddenly, I am picking up a foreign (German, > > actually, judging from the comments in the Element file) TO126 element. > > I have run "find" and I cannot locate where the element is coming from! > > I was able to correct my problem by manually inserting the correct copy > > of the TO126 element into my pcb file (and that element was in it's > > usual proper place in the library). As far as I can tell, only TO126 > > seems to be affected. > > > > While the manual correction works for the time being, it doesn't > > represent a permanent solution. Any suggestions? > > > > Harold Skank > > > > > > > -- > http://www.luciani.org >
