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Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2023 23:20:56 +0100 (CET)
From: Roland Lutz <rlutz AT hedmen DOT org>
To: "David W. Schultz (david DOT schultz AT earthlink DOT net) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: [geda-user] pcb vs gschem
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Hi David,

On Mon, 13 Mar 2023, David W. Schultz (david DOT schultz AT earthlink DOT net) [via 
geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> The error when I try to import a netlist is:
>
> ERROR: Could not find backend `pcbfwd' in load path.
>
> Is there some magic in the gschem build that I should be doing?
>
> It looks like pcb is installed to /usr/share/pcb while "which gschem" yields 
> "/usr/local/bin/gschem". There is a /usr/share/gEDA directory but there is 
> justs one file in it.

PCB brings its own netlister backend called `pcbfwd' and installs it to

     PREFIX/share/gEDA/scheme/gnet-pcbfwd.scm

Since your PCB and gEDA/gaf installation prefixes differ, gnetlist doesn't 
find this backend.

While fixing the backend load path should in theory work, the easiest way 
to fix this would probably be to copy

     /usr/share/gEDA/scheme/gnet-pcbfwd.scm

to

     /usr/local/share/gEDA/scheme/gnet-pcbfwd.scm

Roland