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Hello Richard,

On Sat, 3 Feb 2018, Richard Rasker (rasker AT linetec DOT nl) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:

> Hello Igor,
>
>
> Op 03-02-18 om 16:35 schreef gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu:
>> Hello Richard,
>> 
>> On Sat, 3 Feb 2018, Richard Rasker (rasker AT linetec DOT nl) [via 
>> geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
>> 
>>> Question (and the answer is probably 'no', but I'm curious anyway): with 
>>> the cursor over the net, is there a way to report the net length up to the 
>>> cursor, even when the total length is more? The actual tubing has markings 
>>> at every 10 meters, and it would be convenient if I could duplicate this in 
>>> the PCB plan -- but it might also be handy when designing CPU and memory 
>>> buses for actual pcb's.
>> 
>> I can implement this in pcb-rnd in about 15 minutes, if you are willing to 
>> test it using trunk/.
>
> Being a very lazy person, I normally use the geda-unstable package from the 
> Mehanik ppa, but I'm absolutely willing to give pcb-rnd a try, and yes, this 
> easier net length lookup would be rather handy even for this one application.
>
> One question: is building & installing pcb-rnd likely to interfere with the 
> package version of pcb or any other gEDA components?

There is absolutely no interference, it's 100% safe to install pcb-rnd 
together with geda/pcb, kicad, etc.

> But hey, thanks, I'll look forward to this functionality! I'll have to figure 
> out how to build pcb-rnd again (I don't do much in the way of software 
> builds), but I've done that before, so I should be able to figure it out 
> again.

quick steps:

svn checkout svn://repo.hu/pcb-rnd/trunk pcb-rnd/trunk
cd pcb-rnd/trunk
./configure
make
make install

The last step, make install, is optional; you can run it from source, 
without installation, for a test ride:

cd src
./pcb-rnd USUAL_ARGUMENTS_HERE

Please let me know if everything went well.

TIA,

Igor2