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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

No hurry Bernhard.  Whenever you get a chance.  I just want to have a
complete solution before I commit the changes.

Thanks,

Wayne

On 1/25/2015 2:22 PM, Bernhard Stegmaier wrote:
> Hi Wayne,
> 
> I’ll try to look at it starting tomorrow, so I hope I can give feedback
> until mid of the week.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Bernhard
> 
> On 25.01.2015, at 20:02, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>> On 1/25/2015 10:29 AM, Nick Østergaard wrote:
>>> 2015-01-23 14:42 GMT+01:00 Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx
>>> <mailto: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.
>>
>>
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