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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/25/2015 10:29 AM, Nick Østergaard wrote:
> 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/
> 

The default KISYSMOD on Linux would be
/usr/local/share/kicad/footprints.  However, this can be changed during
the CMake configuration by passing -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/install/path.
 My guess is that packagers set this to /usr instead of the default
/usr/local when building distro specific KiCad packages.  The default
should always correctly point to the correct path as long a the library
install path is also set to the same path as the source build install
path.  The problem child is OSX because of the way the install paths are
defined so I still need an answer from the OSX devs before I commit this
patch.  The Windows NSIS installer can also be problematic if the user
installs KiCad anywhere but the default path which is c:\Program Files.