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Date: Tue, 26 May 2020 10:47:49 +0200 (CEST)
From: Roland Lutz <rlutz AT hedmen DOT org>
To: "Branko (brankob AT s5tehnika DOT net) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: [geda-user] gnetlist/xorn: can't generate netlist on PCB
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Hi Branko,

On Tue, 26 May 2020, Branko (brankob AT s5tehnika DOT net) [via 
geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> Recently I noticed trhat I can't for the life of me generate correct 
> netlist from schematics either manually or as schematic import from PCB.

since gEDA/gaf version 1.10.0, a GUI message dialog is shown when 
importing from PCB fails.  Do you see a message dialog, and if so, what 
errors does it report?

> "gnetlist -v -g PCB  -o TEST4.pcb TEST4.sch" gives me output with this 
> content ( minus starred demacartion lines):
>
> /*************/
> unnamed_net2<-->R2-1 R1-1.
> unnamed_net1<-->R2-2 R1-2.****
> /*************/
>
>
> Just those two lines. No some header and other fields, that one would expect 
> in pcb file...

As far as I can tell, that's the correct output for the `PCB' backend. 
This backend doesn't output a PCB file but a netlist in a format used to 
import it to PCB.

As a side note, PCB's import functionality doesn't use the `PCB' backend 
but PCB's own `pcbfwd' backend which produces a list of PCB commands to 
execute.

Roland