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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/3/2014 5:26 PM, Jean-Paul Louis wrote:
> Hi Wayne,
> 
> The files have been where you said in OSX since quite a while.
> At least several month since Dick helped me to fix few gotchas with OSX
> 
> 
> My problem is that I do not know how to have the fl-lib-table updated
> automatically when the library github repo is modified.
> 
> Is there a way to do that instead of doing it the hard way? manually!

I don't believe we have an automated way of installing fp-lib-table on
OSX.  Unless some comes up with a solution, you will have to resort to
manually copying the latest fp-lib-table to the kicad configuration folder.

> 
> Thanks for your great software.
> 
> Jean-Paul
> AC9GH 
> 
> On Sep 3, 2014, at 4:44 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>> Hey Moses,
>>
>> If the OSX config files should go in ~/Library/Application Support/kicad
>> would you please update the patch accordingly.  Also, could you create a
>> patch to send to the library developers to update the fp-lib-table
>> install script so it gets installed to ~/.config/kicad?
>>
>> As soon as the OSX testing is confirmed and the install script patch is
>> ready, I will commit the changes.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Wayne
>>
>> On 9/3/2014 1:17 PM, Moses McKnight wrote:
>>> Hi Wayne,
>>>
>>> One person on IRC is compiling with the patch to test on OSX.  Currently
>>> the files on OSX should go in ~/Library/Preferences/kicad, but from what
>>> he said and also from these links, it looks like that might should be
>>> changed to ~/Library/Application Support/kicad.  I did figure out an
>>> easy way to make the change if it is decided that is better.
>>>
>>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15677388/default-location-for-configuration-files-macos
>>>
>>> https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/General/Conceptual/MOSXAppProgrammingGuide/AppRuntime/AppRuntime.html
>>>
>>>
>>> The install_****_fp-lib-table cmake stuff is in the kicad library
>>> repository, looks like under the template directory.
>>>
>>> Moses
>>>
>>> On 09/03/2014 09:02 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>>> <snip>
>>>> Can someone please test this on OSX to make sure it doesn't cause any
>>>> issues before we commit it.  Also, kicad-install.sh calls `make
>>>> install_github_fp-lib-table` to install the global fp-lib-table.  I
>>>> cannot find the definition of install_github_fp-lib-table in any of the
>>>> kicad CMake files.  Where ever this is defined, it will need to be
>>>> changed to copy the global fp-lib-table to ~/.config/kicad.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Wayne
>>>>
>>>
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