Re: gEDA-user: PCB question

[Dan McMahill <dan-atMUNGEDmcmahill_dot_net>]

DJ Delorie wrote:
>>OK, I'm an idiot. How do I create a local (as in local to my design
>>directory) library of PCB footprints? All the documentation I see
>>suggests that it will automatically search in the "packages"
>>directory in the current workig directory. No?!

When you say "it will automatically search" what is the "it"?  If you're 
talking the library browser in pcb, I think it won't.  If you're talking 
about gsch2pcb I think it will.

> Note that a local directory *overrides* the global one, as pcb only
> supports one library at a time (er, one each of m4 and newlib).

Thats not really true.  Only 1 for m4, but for newlib, you just use a : 
separated path (; for windows due to paths like c:\) just like a unix 
search path.

> In my gsch2pcb project file, I do something like this:
> 
> elements-dir footprints


I'm pretty certain that you can include multiple elements-dir lines in 
your project file and gsch2pcb will search through them all.  At least 
thats what it looks like in the code.

-Dan



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