default project file conflicts with kicad 4
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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KiCad |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
The path to the default kicad template project file (kicad.pro) seems to be fixed to /usr/share/
This seems to be true for KiCad 4.0.7 and the current nightly of KiCad 5.
Please refer to the forum: https:/
Application: kicad
Version: 5.0.0-rc2-
Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.0.2
libcurl/7.56.1 mbedTLS/2.6.0 zlib/1.2.8
Platform: Linux 4.10.0-40-generic x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK
Build Info:
wxWidgets: 3.0.2 (wchar_t,wx containers,
Boost: 1.58.0
Curl: 7.47.0
Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 with C++ ABI 1009
Build settings:
USE_
USE_
KICAD_
KICAD_
KICAD_
KICAD_
BUILD_
KICAD_
KICAD_SPICE=ON
Changed in kicad: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
This was fixed in commit 5678a166 by adding a KICAD_USER_ TEMPLATE_ DIR which is user configurable and takes precedence over the default template path. This should resolve this issue so I'm marking it as fixed. If you are still having issues, please change the status back to new and I will fix it.