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[Johannes Maibaum <jmaibaum@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I came across the following error when trying to load footprints in PCBnew today:

  Errors were encountered loading footprints
  IO_ERROR: footprint library path '/Library/Application
  Support/kicad/modules/Air_Coils_SML_NEOSID.pretty' does not exist
  from /Users/jenkins/remoteroot/workspace/KiCadBuildMac/kicad/pcbnew/kicad_plugin.cpp :
  FootprintEnumerate() : line 1804
  IO_ERROR: footprint library path '/Library/Application
  Support/kicad/modules/Buttons_Switches_SMD.pretty' does not exist
  from /Users/jenkins/remoteroot/workspace/KiCadBuildMac/kicad/pcbnew/kicad_plugin.cpp :
  FootprintEnumerate() : line 1804
  IO_ERROR: footprint library path '/Library/Application
  Support/kicad/modules/Transistors_TO-220.pretty' does not exist
  from /Users/jenkins/remoteroot/workspace/KiCadBuildMac/kicad/pcbnew/kicad_plugin.cpp :
  FootprintEnumerate() : line 1804
  IO_ERROR: footprint library path '/Library/Application
  Support/kicad/modules/Buttons_Switches_ThroughHole.pretty' does not exist
  from /Users/jenkins/remoteroot/workspace/KiCadBuildMac/kicad/pcbnew/kicad_plugin.cpp :
  FootprintEnumerate() : line 1804
  IO_ERROR: footprint library path '/Library/Application
  Support/kicad/modules/Transistors_TO-247.pretty' does not exist
  from /Users/jenkins/remoteroot/workspace/KiCadBuildMac/kicad/pcbnew/kicad_plugin.cpp :
  FootprintEnumerate() : line 1804

A quick search in the Bugtracker shows that is related to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1426754

In my case, however, I don't think that a wrong setting of KISYSMOD is the cause, but rather
that there is a mismatch between the path string *after* the KISYSMOD part in the fp-lib-
table, and the actual structure of the libraries in the extras bundle. Take, for example, the
first IO_ERROR, it says:

  IO_ERROR: footprint library path '/Library/Application
  Support/kicad/modules/Air_Coils_SML_NEOSID.pretty' does not exist

The corresponding line from the fp-lib-table looks like this:

    (lib (name Air_Coils_SML_NEOSID)(type KiCad)(uri ${KISYSMOD}/Air_Coils_SML_NEOSID.pretty)(options "")(descr HAMxx31A_HDMxx31A))

So, KISYSMOD seems to be set correctly to "/Library/Application Support/kicad/modules", but inside there is simply no folder called "Air_Coils_SML_NEOSID.pretty". Instead, all the
.kicad_mod files from this sub-library are located *directly* inside modules/:

  Johannes-Maibaums-MacBook-Pro:kicad jm$ pwd; find . -name Neosid_Air-\*.kicad_mod
  /Library/Application Support/kicad
  ./modules/Neosid_Air-Coil_SML_1turn_HDM0131A.kicad_mod
  ./modules/Neosid_Air-Coil_SML_2turn_HAM0231A.kicad_mod
  ./modules/Neosid_Air-Coil_SML_2turn_HDM0231A.kicad_mod
  ./modules/Neosid_Air-Coil_SML_3turn_HAM0331A.kicad_mod
  ./modules/Neosid_Air-Coil_SML_3turn_HDM0331A.kicad_mod
  ./modules/Neosid_Air-Coil_SML_4turn_HAM0431A.kicad_mod
  ./modules/Neosid_Air-Coil_SML_4turn_HDM0431A.kicad_mod
  ./modules/Neosid_Air-Coil_SML_5turn_HAM0531A.kicad_mod
  ./modules/Neosid_Air-Coil_SML_5turn_HDM0531A.kicad_mod
  ./modules/Neosid_Air-Coil_SML_6-10turn_HDM0431A-HDM1031A.kicad_mod
  ./modules/Neosid_Air-Coil_SML_6turn-10turn_HAM0631A-HAM1031A.kicad_mod
  ./modules/Neosid_Air-Coil_SML_6turn_HAM0631A.kicad_mod

This also holds true for all other footprint libraries: in the fp-lib-table, they are listed
in to be in their respective *.pretty sub folders, but actually, they are directly located
inside the modules/ folder.

This issue seems to be existing since the first official nightly, as I also checked both the
first available extras.dmg (from February 20) and the one from today (March 2), both their
modules/ folders look the same in this respect, so this issue seems to be existing from the
beginning.

I think the modules/ folder inside the extras needs to be rearranged to contain all libraries
inside their subfolders with the ".pretty" postfix, as stated in the fp-lib-table.


Best,
Johannes

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