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Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2021 01:46:20 +0300
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On Sat, Apr 17, 2021 at 04:44:26PM +0200, karl AT aspodata DOT se [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> Vladimir:
> > On Sat, Apr 17, 2021 at 02:08:05PM +0200, karl AT aspodata DOT se [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> ...
> > >  But for some projects it would be nice if I could start
> > >  lepton/geda an a clean plate.
> > Lepton has the 'LEPTON_INHIBIT_RC_FILES' environment variable.  It
> > is of limited usage and may be dropped some day.  If you would
> > make it more clear what the 'clean plate' is in this case and how
> > to support it, we could do better.
> 
> This is about libraries and the reset thing would probably suffice.
> 
> I a had a customer and they wanted all their symbols etc. to be
> within the same repository (git in this case, but it could be
> whatever), with no accidental use of any lib outside of that top 
> directory.
> 
> There was separate dirs for each subproject, a top .sch with source 
> symbols pointing to each subdirs "top" sch which was about one pcb each
> but there could be multiple pcbs for each subdir. But you could traverse
> the whole hierarchy starting from the top node, or a subtree starting
> from some node (I could possible put in a "up" src symbol).
> 
> Now all thees should reference the same symbol library dir, but since 
> the repo could be checked out at different places in the local file 
> system I couldn't use absolute paths.
> 
> So I used something like:
> $ cat gafrc 
> (reset-component-library)
> (reset-source-library)
> 
> (if (access? "sym" R_OK)
>  (begin
>   (source-library  "_sub_page")
>   (component-library "sym")
> ...
>  )
>  (begin
>   (source-library  "../_sub_page")
>   (component-library "../sym")
> ...
>  )
> )
> 
> with links from each subdir (ln -s ../gafrc .)
> and I could open the top sch, or a subdir sch and get the same 
> libraries.
> 
> Now this was only two directory levels, and it wouldn't scale well to 
> more.
> 
> So, what's the "best" way to solve that...
> 

You could do 'ln -s ../sym' in each of the subdirs and then
the commands in gafrc for sub-pages were superfluous.

  Vladimir