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Date: Thu, 02 May 2013 12:14:01 -0400
From: Jim Lynch <jim AT k4gvo DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [geda-help] m4 missing from tutorial
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Since you are not using the m4 footprints and probably won't in the 
future, you could solve the problem by adding the following statement to 
your project file:

skip-m4

And removing the other references to the m4 path.

Jim.
On 05/02/2013 10:01 AM, Chris Fisichella wrote:
> DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>:
>
>>
>>> The gsch2pcb:pcb-m4-dir: is not correct for my system. You wouldn't
> to
>>> happen to know the gafrc syntax for setting the pcb-m4-dir do you?
> I
>>> vaguely remember lisp.. it is something like
>>> (setq gsch2pcb:pcb-m4-dir "/usr/local/share/pcb/m4")
>>
>> Dunno, I use pcb's importer now.
>>
>
> Hi DJ,
>
> With the hope this helps someone else in the future, I had to do the 
> following to get the tutorial to work and avoid the
> 6 file elements and 0 m4 elements added to board.pcb message
>
> and get the tutorial message:
> 0 file elements and 7 m4 elements added to board.pcb.
>
> I had to execute this command in the project1 directory as laid out in 
> the tutorial:
> gsch2pcb -v --m4-pcbdir "/usr/local/share/pcb/m4" project
>
> You don't need the -v once you get things rolling, but it is handy for 
> seeing what gsch2pcb is doing.
>
> Best Regards,
> Chris
>
>

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