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[Bernhard Stegmaier <stegmaier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It’s not in a plist, but in ~/Library/Preferences/kicad/kicad_common.
As far as I can remember, if you had something wrong in there before the environment-variable changes Wayne did, it didn’t vanish with the changes… you had to manually change via Preferences => Path Configuration (or, clear/edit it manually in the configs).

What is shown for him in Preferences => Path Configuration? Does he have footprints available or not?
Maybe he really did see something else…


Regards,
Bernhard

> On 03 Dec 2015, at 21:43, Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> I am glad I am not the only one puzzled by this.
> 
> I also searched the plists, because at one point we were putting environment variables in there, but that stopped over a year ago I thought.
> 
> Oh the other hand--
> 
> Is it possible he had some other error, and saw the debug messages that say line numbers (which do have the build paths from my server), and searched, and thought this bug is the same issue he's having?
> 
> Adam Wolf
> 
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 2:38 PM, Bernhard Stegmaier <stegmaier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:stegmaier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> I also don’t see any reason for what you described.
> The SEARCH_STACK stuff should not be used in pcbnew any more, the other one in pgm_base.cpp looks good IMHO. I can’t remember any other place where this could be a problem except there is already some path slipping in from outside of KiCad.
> 
> Is he *really* sure that this OSX has *never* seen any KiCad before and there are no config files or attempts left from any previous try?
> Maybe he just copied his home folder including ~/Library/Preferences/kicad after a fresh install that was generated on a different machine or previous OS X installation?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Bernhard
> 
>> On 03 Dec 2015, at 21:18, Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>> 
>> A good one!  But alas, we have them drag and drop a kicad/ directory onto a symlink to /Library/Application\ Support/, and it does a popup asking for admin privileges.  (We also have this in the README right there when you install).
>> 
>> It's certainly got me puzzled!
>> 
>> On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Bob Gustafson <bobgus@xxxxxxx <mailto:bobgus@xxxxxxx>> wrote:
>> Maybe it is a 'first time use problem' - maybe no kicad directory in the /Library/Application Support/. It may require a privilege password to add this directory the first time.
>> 
>> A thought anyway.
>> 
>> Bob G
>> 
>> 
>> On 12/03/2015 02:08 PM, Adam Wolf wrote:
>>> Hi folks!
>>> 
>>> A user is having a problem with the latest OS X RC2 release, and I haven't been able to figure it out.
>>> 
>>> Quick background:
>>> 
>>> There is a KiCad package, and a KiCad Extras package.  The KiCad Extras package has a modules/ directory in it, and it has all the footprints.  It's for offline use.  It also has an fp-table-lib, which uses KISYSMOD to point at the modules, like this:
>>> 
>>>   (lib (name Capacitors_SMD)(type KiCad)(uri ${KISYSMOD}/Capacitors_SMD.pretty)(options "")(descr "The way you like them."))
>>> 
>>> My builds have DEFAULT_INSTALL_PATH set to /Library/Application Support/kicad, like I want them to.  I checked the build output, and it shows:
>>> -- Kicad install dir: </Library/Application Support/kicad>
>>> Great, awesome, exactly like I want it.
>>> 
>>> On the other hand--we have a user, who newly installed KiCad on his Mac, and it looks like his KISYSMOD is being set to a path on the build system, probably CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX. (https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1426754 <https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1426754>)  (This was happening previously, and I started to set DEFAULT_INSTALL_PATH, and things got better for people after they cleared their preferences.)
>>> 
>>> As far as I can tell, those defaults are set in common/pgm_base.cpp, and the only Mac specific ifdef is to not include /share/kicad/ in KISYSMOD's path. (Which is correct.)
>>> 
>>> I cleared all my KiCad preferences and reinstalled the same package he did (as part of testing the RC2, like I do with most significant builds) and did not have this issue.
>>> 
>>> The only possible issue I see when looking for DEFAULT_INSTALL_PATH stuff for OS X is in common/systemdirsappend.cpp, in void SystemDirsAppend( SEARCH_STACK* aSearchStack ). Instead of adding DEFAULT_INSTALL_PATH, it uses some OS X specific functions, but those seem to be working fine.
>>> 
>>> So.  This is happening to a user, and I cannot reproduce it, but I'm worried about releasing 4.0.0 on OS X without more information.  I know of 30+ installs of 4.0.0 RC2 that *didn't* have this issue for Jimmy, but I suspect they all had existing preference files.
>>> 
>>> 1) Does anyone have any insight?
>>> 
>>> 2) Should this hold up the 4.0.0 package for OS X?  I have no real qualms about doing this and then releasing a 4.0.0-2 as soon as this gets figured out.
>>> 
>>> 3) A possible hack that would fix this could be to change the fp-table-lib included with the extras package to point to the exact same place as the symlink--i.e. expand out KISYSMOD.  I actually don't necessarily see a huge problem with this--if a user wants to install the files somewhere else than the default package does it, they are probably capable of a search/replace in a text editor.
>>> 
>>> I'd rather fix the real issue, but being that I cannot reproduce it after ~3 hours, I'm not sure I want to say "I'm not going to cut a 4.0.0 release until this is fixed."
>>> 
>>> Thoughts?
>>> 
>>> Adam Wolf
>>> Cofounder and Engineer
>>> W&L
>>> 
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