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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, working on it.

Adam Wolf
Cofounder and Engineer
W&L

On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 10:13 AM, Johannes Maibaum <jmaibaum@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> 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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