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From: "Vladimir Zhbanov (vzhbanov AT gmail DOT com)" <geda-help AT delorie DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [geda-help] gsch2pcb gives 'No elements found'
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On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 11:08:01PM +0400, Ala'a Mohammad (amalawi AT gmail DOT com) wrote:
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> One more thing. One of the symbols used an m4 macro "Connector 2 1"
> and did not appear in the pcb, checking the terminal for gsch2pcb
> verbose output, I noticed the following
> 
> CONN1: need new file element for footprint  CONNECTOR-2-1 (value=unknown)
> CONN1: can't find PCB element for footprint CONNECTOR-2-1 (value=unknown)
> So device CONN1 will not be in the layout.
> 
> I suspected PCBM4DIR and appended the env var to my shell dot file
> .zshrc pointing to where they were installed, reloaded .zshrc and
> nothing changed, then added the option inside the project file as
> 
> m4-pcbdir /usr/local/share/pcb/m4
> 
> and it worked (generating the proper connector as per the tutorial).
> 
> my question is, How to make this value a default and avoid adding it
> explicitly in each project file? I tried search in the net but did not
> succeed, maybe I missed the proper keywords or place to search for!

Try to set PCBDATA=/usr/local/share/pcb (I don't know how to write the
environment variable correctly for zsh, though).

Cheers,
  Vladimir