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[Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Wayne,

The sym-lib-table file is empty (I didn't create/copy this, I guess kicad
created it):

$ cat ~/.config/kicad/sym-lib-table
(sym_lib_table
)

I don't have KICAD_SYMBOL_DIR set in my environment:

$ env | grep KI
KIGITHUB=https://github.com/KiCad
KICAD_PATH=/usr/share/kicad

-Jon


On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 8:02 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Jon,
>
> Please send me a copy of your global symbol library table
> (sym-lib-table) located in the kicad folder of your user configuration
> path.  There are no sym-lib-table paths with http://github.com/KiCad in
> the default symbol library table.  I just checked.  Either you have
> copied an invalid symbol library table file or something is broken in
> you configuration.  The only other thing I can think of is the somehow
> your KICAD_SYMBOL_DIR environment variable is pointing to
> http://github.com/KiCad.  It should be point to where the default kicad
> symbol libraries are install.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Wayne
>
> On 11/13/2017 9:30 PM, Jon Evans wrote:
> > Hi Wayne,
> >
> > I just pulled in your recent changes and got a series of assertions when
> > trying to remap the symbol table.  I just ignored them and it seemed to
> > work, but something is strange here:
> >
> > ../../eeschema/dialogs/dialog_symbol_remap.cpp(306): assert
> > "aPathA.IsAbsolute()" failed in normalizeAbsolutePaths():
> > https:/github.com/KiCad <http://github.com/KiCad> is not an absolute
> path.
> >
> > (note the single slash after https:)
> >
> > I haven't looked in to it closely but wanted to mention in case you
> > already know what the cause is.  If not, I can dig in at some point.
> >
> > -Jon
>