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Subject:	Re: [geda-user] gsch2pcb -- No elements found
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On Fri, 26 Aug 2016, Chris Smith (space DOT dandy AT icloud DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I?m revisiting an old project which uses gsch2pcb.  This project used to work fine, but now running gsch2pcb gives the error ?No elements found, nothing to do?.  I can?t figure out what might be wrong and running with -v doesn?t show anything particularly enlightening.
>
> The project uses a local ./packages directory, which I don?t see in the -v output, but manually adding the directory with -d doesn?t change the outcome or the -v output.
>
> Any ideas?

I'd try strace to see where it tries to open the footprints (if it tries 
at all - maybe it thinks it doesn't need to update any footprint)

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