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[Johannes Maibaum <jmaibaum@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Adam,

great, the new build now works for me.

Again, thank you very much!

Best,
Johannes

> Am 02.03.2015 um 17:59 schrieb Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> 
> Should be fixed.  It'll get picked up in tonight's nightlies, and all you'll have to do is grab the new extras dmg.
> 
> I triggered a new build, but it'll be a while (3ish hours), otherwise midnight tonight.
> 
> Adam Wolf
> Cofounder and Engineer
> W&L
> 
> On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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