[Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#911559: kicad: pcbnew crashes on reading a eeschema generated netlist

[Seth Hillbrand]

Hallo Carsten-

Am 2018-11-07 11:15, schrieb Carsten Schoenert:
> Hi,
> 
> Am 05.11.18 um 18:40 schrieb trollo at franken-online.de:
>> I wish to supply some additional information:
>> 
>> If I try to import the netlist into a newly generated board, pcbnew
>> reproducibly fails as stated in my last mail.> If I remove 2 to 4 
>> arbitrarily selected '(footprint ...)' lines from
>> the netlist using a text editor, the partial netlist import succeeds
>> and I can drop the incomplete block of footprints onto the board. If
>> I then import the unmodified complete netlist the previously missing
>> footprints appear and can also be dropped onto the board resulting in
>> a complete bunch of footprints and networks on the board.
> 
> so far I've seen and have understand the message from Seth the main
> problem is the code inside KiCad for i386 here.
> 
> Seth, I guess the root for this report will be fixed with the upcoming
> release 5.0.2 of Kicad?

Yes.  The issue was a build flag that needed to be included for i386 
machines.  The default flags are fixed for 5.0.2 but I know that they 
get modified by the debian build, so you may check that that it keeps 
the extra -ffloat-store for 32-bit builds.

-S