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ID:142
From:ge...@igor2.repo.hu
Date:Sun, 13 Nov 2016 16:19:29 +0100 (CET)
Subject:Re: [pcb-rnd] parametric footprints
in-reply-to:141 from John Griessen <jo...@cibolo.com>
 
 
On Sun, 13 Nov 2016, John Griessen wrote:
 
<snip>
 
> But really what I want is footprints that include the vias and some traces and 
> middle layer copper
> that extends to make a heat sink, etc, all in the footprint!  For  future, not 
> tomorrow...
 
That's also planned  - one of the reasons we switched from the original 
pcb file format to lihata board to allow footprints to be extended.
 
>
> I figured why I did not see my qf.awk changes have effect -- not thinking -- I 
> was only changing
> /modatabig/src/pcb-rnd/trunk/pcblib/parametric/qf.awk
> when I needed to be changing the installed place:
> /usr/local/share/pcb-rnd/pcblib/parametric/qf.awk
 
There's a hack for this: make linstall.
 
It does the same as make install, except it creates symlinks instead of 
copies. This is useful if you plan to make changes to the code but still 
want to run it installed.
 
 

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