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Subject: [geda-help] Dirt Dumb Level..
From: Bob Gustafson <bobgus AT rcn DOT com>
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Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 00:04:33 -0600
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Hi

I am just starting with gEDA...

I wrote up a gafrc file:

  (define gedasymbols "/home/user1/TapeDrive/gschem-sym")
  (component-library "/home/user1/TapeDrive/gschem-sym/")

and it worked.

Then I decided to get fancy and wrote gafrc file like this:

  HOME="/home/user1/TapeDrive/"
  (define gedasymbols "${HOME}/gschem-sym")
  (component-library "${HOME}/gschem-sym")

and it didn't work.

Then I did:

  (define HOME "/home/user1/TapeDrive/")
  (define gedasymbols "${HOME}/gschem-sym")
  (component-library "${HOME}/gschem-sym")

and it still didn't work.

I looked around for an example gafrc file, but nothing with the
definition of HOME. Is it bash syntax, or guile syntax?

Thanks for your time

Bob G