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On Thu, 2012-12-13 at 16:33 +0000, Peter TB Brett wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 10:22:54 -0600, Bob Gustafson <bobgus AT rcn DOT com> wrote:
> 
> > Ahh, ok
> > 
> > [user1 AT hoho6 ~]$ gschem --version
> > gschem: invalid option -- '-'
> > 
> > Hmm, but.. The nifty logging window gives:
> > gEDA/gschem version 1.6.2.20110115
> > 
> > I'm using Fedora 17 and this version is the latest blessed by the
> > distribution and/or debugged enough upstream..
> 
> Okay. To answer your original question, you probably want something like:
> 
> (define homedir "/home/user1/TapeDrive/")
> (component-library (build-path homedir "gschem-sym"))
> 
> Does that do what you need? "${FOO}" interpolation only works for
> environment variables, not Scheme variables.
> 
> gEDA/gaf 1.8.1 will be available in the Fedora repos soon.
> 
> Peter
> 

OK, super. Actually I am getting some good results with gEDA/gschem. It
is pretty intuitive, after the initial bumps.

I will upgrade to Fedora 18 when it is released in January and probably
by then a later version of gschem will be available in their repos.

Perhaps I will even have a board into fab by then..

Thanks to everyone for their inputs.

Bob G

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