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On Sun, 7 Oct 2018, Erich Heinzle (a1039181 AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:

> a) an Eagle layout (.brd) with the component in it

<snip>

> 4) a more obscure option is to use the "layout as library" option in
> pcb-rnd, where you tell pcb-rnd to treat a board as a footprint
> library, and the footprint will then become available in the library
> window

Just to make it 100% clear: these two are connceted. Erich suggests you 
can map the eagle board file as a footprint library and pick any footprint 
from it to place on your board, either from the library window or through 
any of the schematics->PCB paths. Just as if you have first extracted the 
footprints and saved them in a directory, but you can skip this boring 
extraction step.

(This method is useful if you find a board that has many footprints you 
need. The board can be in whatever format, lihata, eagle, kicad, 
protel/autotrax, specctra dsn, mentor hyperlynx, geda/pcb, it all works 
the same way)

Regards,

Igor2