It's been a while since I've done a PCB design, so I haven't used gerbv recently. Needing to look at a reference design, and also recovering from a laptop hard drive crash, I took that as an opportunity to check out the latest gerbv. I seem to have discovered a couple of oddities in the current git repo.
System: OS 10.5.8, Macbook 2.16 GHz Core 2 Duo, 2G ram What I did: 1. Clone the git repo as of 1-Dec-09 2. created symbolic link from /opt/local/bin/glibtoolize to /usr/bin/libtoolize to satisfy autogen.sh 3. repeatedly did 'port <foo>' to satisfy configure dependencies. (GTK, pango and such) 4. ./configure --disable-update-desktop-database 5. make (I see there is a fink package, but I use macports, and the common wisdom is to avoid mixing fink and macports packages. I wanted the git repo anyway.) So far so good. Here is what I noticed: 1. It took surprisingly long to start up -- about 22 seconds. Part of that is OS 10.5 starting Xwindows. 2. The reference design: http://atmel.com/dyn/resources/prod_documents/evk1101_gerber.zip has a couple of display oddities. First of all, gerbv thinks the board is about 2 x 3 meters. I have an EVK1101, I can assure you it is not :) After zooming into the design, gerbv will not zoom all the way back out. 3. One of my own designs created with pcb opened and displayed just fine, but I had trouble getting to it. It was on a samba share, and the file open dialog box appeared to hang trying to get the directory listing of my share. I ended up simply copying it over to look at with gerbv, which worked fine. So... I know running off the latest git I may or may not have crashed into work in progress. Also, running on OS X puts me in the minority. But I'm thinking the Atmel reference design is a good test case -- I have no idea what tool produced their gerber files. Let me know if there is something more you want me to check out and/or if you want me to file a bug report on any of this. Thanks, Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Join us December 9, 2009 for the Red Hat Virtual Experience, a free event focused on virtualization and cloud computing. Attend in-depth sessions from your desk. Your couch. Anywhere. http://p.sf.net/sfu/redhat-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Gerbv-devel mailing list Gerbv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gerbv-devel
