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[Mark Roszko <mark.roszko@xxxxxxxxx>]

https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-source-mirror/blob/610ff7485ff8659cec69568a734e059429aca151/common/pgm_base.cpp


You have to look at KISYSMOD and then KISYS3DMOD which appends to the path
made for KISYSMOD



On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 6:01 PM, Clemens Koller <cko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi, Joerg!
>
> On 2018-01-09 18:49, Jörg Hermann wrote:
> > Is this behaviour somehow related to https://bugs.launchpad.net/
> kicad/+bug/1677545
>
> Maybe... remotely.
> KISYS3DMOD's default path, as well as it's handling, seems to be off a bit.
>
> My question is: Is Kicad supposed to work with ~/... in general or - for
> some very good reason - needs the expanded (absolute) /home/<username>/... ?
> If ~/... is an acceptable pathname, then there is a bug to hunt in the
> latest git.
>
> In other words: Where is the code where file + pathnames are abstracted to
> make it work across all platforms in this case?
> kicad.git/common/env_paths.cpp ?
>
> Regards,
>
> Clemens
>
>
> >
> >> On 9. Jan 2018, at 15:38, Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:
> oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >>
> >> If you really want to start from scratch then you may also want to
> remove the ~/.cache/kicad  (or there about, I am not on linux right now).
> But it is not as important, it only contains the scene graph model cache.
> (Or what ever it is really called)
> >>
> >> 2018-01-09 14:55 GMT+01:00 Clemens Koller <cko@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:
> cko@xxxxxxxxx>>:
> >>
> >>     Hi!
> >>
> >>     I am testing latest-git on Linux, collecting some UX issues when
> starting Kicad from scratch (*):
> >>
> >>     On a new installation, I cannot execute 3D Shape Downloader out of
> the box. KISYS3DMOD points to ~/SW/share/kicad/modules/packages3d after
> installation to ~/SW/share/kicad/bin.
> >>
> >>     This folder doesn't exist yet at this point, but could be created
> by Kicad.
> >>     (The behaviour is still the same even when ~/SW/share/kicad/modules/packages3d
> was created in advance.)
> >>
> >>     The 3D Shape Downloader then tells me:
> >>     "It's not possible to write in the selected directory. Please
> choose anothe one."
> >>
> >>     When I press "Default 3D Path", I would expect that it resets the
> path to a default working one,
> >>     but an message tells me that "KISYS3DMOD path not defined , or not
> existing".
> >>
> >>     Anyway it's possible to hit the Next-> button just to realize than
> after an hour of downloading, the download is going to fail -> Duh!
> >>     When I replace the ~/ with /home/admin/ everything seems to work.
> >>     Is there a reason that the ~ cannot be used from within Kicad?
> >>
> >>     Regards,
> >>
> >>     Clemens
> >>
> >>     (*) Kicad rebuilt from src and started from scratch after rm
> ~/.config/kicad
> >>
> >>
> >>     ---
> >>     Application: kicad
> >>     Version: (2018-01-08 <tel:%282018-01-08> revision
> 0e9c8a423)-master, release build
> >>     Libraries:
> >>         wxWidgets 3.0.3
> >>         libcurl/7.57.0 OpenSSL/1.1.0g zlib/1.2.11 libidn2/2.0.4
> libpsl/0.19.1 (+libidn2/2.0.4) libssh2/1.8.0 nghttp2/1.29.0
> >>     Platform: Linux 4.14.12-1-ARCH x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK
> >>     Build Info:
> >>         wxWidgets: 3.0.3 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8)
> GTK+ 2.24
> >>         Boost: 1.66.0
> >>         Curl: 7.57.0
> >>         Compiler: GCC 7.2.1 with C++ ABI 1011
> >>
> >>     Build settings:
> >>         USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
> >>         USE_WX_OVERLAY=OFF
> >>         KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
> >>         KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
> >>         KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
> >>         KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
> >>         BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
> >>         KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
> >>         KICAD_SPICE=ON
> >
> >
> >
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