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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

The symbol library table is not in play yet.  It will be soon.  You
should continue to use the current schematic symbol library path search
until then.

On 3/16/2017 9:37 AM, Ingo Kletti wrote:
> Hello all
> 
> and sorry for pushing this to the dev mailing list, but I hope to get an
> authoritative answer from you:
> 
> 
> I am preparing the update from KiCad 4.0.4 to 4.0.6 on the approximately
> 70 PCs used in our classroom installations (all Windows 7 64 Bit).
> 
> We are using a centrally managed library for schematic symbols and pcb
> footprints which is stored on a network share.
> 
> To make that work, the paths in the 'kicad.pro' template file and the
> environment variables KICAD_PTEMPLATES KISYSMOD and KISYS3DMOD are
> modified to point to the correct network share folders.
> 
> My test install shows that for schematic symbols a new file
> 'sym_lib_table' has been introduced, analog to 'fp_lib_table' for
> footprints. In that file a variable 'KICAD_SYS_SYMBOL_DIR' is used for
> path declaration, but the corresponding environment variable is not set
> during the installation process.
> 
> Is there any value in setting the environment variable
> 'KICAD_SYS_SYMBOL_DIR' (like Kicad using it if it is set, otherwise it
> uses the legacy kicad.pro definitions) or should I even expect
> interferences with the path declaration from the 'kicad.pro' template
> when 'KICAD_SYS_SYMBOL_DIR' is set?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Ingo
>