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From: "karl AT aspodata DOT se [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com>
To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com
Subject: [geda-user] config files
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Date: Fri,  4 Dec 2020 10:28:21 +0100 (CET)
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With the current trend towards non executable config files, I wounder
how I do this today.

I have some to dir where there are subdirectories for
symbols ("sym"), subsheets ("_sub_page"), and sub projects
("a", "b", ...)

In the top dir, I have this gafrc file:

(reset-component-library)
(reset-source-library)

(if (access? "sym" R_OK)
 (begin
  (source-library  "_sub_page")
  (source-library  "a")
  (source-library  "b")
...
  (component-library "sym")
 )
 (begin
  (source-library  "../_sub_page")
  (source-library  "../a")
  (source-library  "../b")
...
  (component-library "../sym")
  (component-library ".")
 )
)

and in the subproject dirs I have done ln -s ../gafrc ., so
regardless if I start lepton/gschem from top dir or from a sub dir,
I get the same sym and _sub_page dir.

So, how do I set up the configs so that I can access the same component 
and source library regardless of where I start the schematic editor and
without resorting to useing absolute paths (different people check it 
out and places it in different paths) ?

Regards,
/Karl Hammar