X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-help-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-help AT delorie DOT com Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2016 12:26:35 -0400 (EDT) From: "Stuart Brorson (sdb AT cloud9 DOT net) [via geda-help AT delorie DOT com]" To: geda-help AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: [geda-help] Custom gschem symbols no longer working In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Reply-To: geda-help AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: geda-help AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk Sounds like you need to check your search path for symbol libs. This is usually in a file called .gafrc, or perhaps in .gschemrc. There may be a global copy in the place where you put your gschem installation, and you may have a copy in your home directory. I generally put a .gafrc into my project directory and use it to call out the location of any local symbols I have created. Stuart On Wed, 2 Nov 2016, Carlos Moreno wrote: > Hi, > > I have Ubuntu 14.04 and I had originally installed and used > the gEDA version that comes through the distro's repositories > (I believe it is the version from 2011). > > I recently downloaded PCB and gSchem from source and > compiled them on my machine --- I did not remove the > Ubuntu packages. > > PCB works with no issues as far as I can tell. > > However, I'm having trouble with gschem --- I can find no > way to make the custom symbols work. I have a schematic > that I had created before installing the new version, and > when I open it, I get warning/error icons at the positions > where these custom symbols were used. > > I tried creating a new schematic, but then, none of the > custom symbols I have show up in the list. For example, > I have an AD7357 symbol, which I created on .gEDA/symbols, > and I also copied to /usr/share/gEDA/sym/local/ but it won't > show up when I try to add a component on the schematic. > > I generated it with tragesym from a CSV description; I *can* > open the symbol from gschem, and it shows ok. I also run > gsymcheck and it shows ok: > >> [...]$ gsymcheck AD7357.sym >> >> Checking: /usr/share/gEDA/sym/analog/AD7357.sym >> No errors found >> > > What am I missing? > > I'm attaching the AD7357.sym file just in case (but it happens > with all of the custom symbols --- I have no less than 10 or 20 of > them). Notice that I'm only interested in creating a schematic > and then import it into PCB Designer to create the PCB layout. > > Thanks, > Carlos > -- > >