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[Terry Barnaby <terry1@...>]

On 17/03/10 21:00, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> On 3/17/2010 8:44 AM, Terry Barnaby wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am trying to use kicad 2010.03.14-2.rev2462 built as an RPM for
> Fedora 12.
> > Its basically working but there seems to be an issue with library
> > perferences. If I use "preferences/library" on eeschema to set up my
> libraries
> > and save them into the *.pro file all works fine until I re-run
> eeschema, then
> > my library preferences are lost. The preferences appear to be
> correctly saved
> > in the *.pro file but don't appear to be read when eeschema is started.
> > The Fedora standard packaged version of kicad has the same problem.
> >
> > Any ideas, is this a known bug ?
>
> Terry,
>
> I just checked this and it seems to work fine for me. I added and
> removed libraries and changed the order of the libraries in the library
> list. The changes were saved in the project file and load correctly.
> Is it possible that you don't have write privileges to your project
> file? ( which would be the case in Linux if you were trying to modify
> one of the sample projects in /usr/share/kicad/demos ) I don't know if
> EESchema will fail silently if it doesn't have write privileges to the
> project file. If you have any additional information, please let the
> developer's group know so this behavior can be reproduced and fixed.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Wayne
Thanks for the reply.
The *.pro file is read/write by me and appears to have the saved library
configuration. It just seems to be ignored when I restart kicad ...
There are no messages printed out to a terminal.
I can't see any verbose logging flags on eeschema or kicad to try ...

I guess I can start looking at the code, any recommendation on where to look ?

Cheers

Terry