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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

2015-01-23 14:42 GMT+01:00 Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>:
> As you all know, we have had many users struggle with setting up the
> environment variables used in the footprint library table and 3D model
> code.  The attached patch sets the process environment variables
> KIGITHUB and KISYS3DMOD.  KIGITHUB should work for all platforms since
> it is the URL for the kicad library repos on GitHub which is always
> https://github.com/KiCad.  KISYS3DMOD uses the 3D model library install
> path created during the CMake configuration.  This works fine for me on
> windows and linux.  OSX may be a different story due to the way the
> bundle paths are defined.  Would on of the OSX devs please test this and
> give me some feedback?  Please don't forget to remove these environment
> variables that are set elsewhere.  Otherwise, the environment variable
> in this patch will be ignored.  My guess is that if we get the default
> environment variable set correctly that it would solve the problem for
> the largest percentage of users until I get some time to work on the
> dialog to edit them.  I will also add KISYSMOD to this code once have
> the default OSX paths established.

What would the default KISYSMOD be? I currently set it to
/usr/share/kicad/footprints in my kicad-pretty-git AUR package [1].

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/kicad-pretty-git/