@User, check your

XSCHEM_LIBRARY_PATH

in your

xschemrc

file, ensure there are no multiple directories like:

append XSCHEM_LIBRARY_PATH  :${XSCHEM_SHAREDIR}/xschem_library/devices

append XSCHEM_LIBRARY_PATH  :${XSCHEM_SHAREDIR}/xschem_library

if this is the case you could have

vsource.sym

and

devices/vsource.sym

in your design. See this tutorial for details In situations like this you have to make a decision, either specify your

XSCHEM_LIBRARY_PATH

to go down to the directory containing your symbols (so you instantiate just '`vsource.sym`') or stop one or two levels above and so your instances will be named for example

devices/vsource.sym

. Another case where xschem might be confused is if you have a symbol with identical name (for example:

diode.sym

) in 2 different directories that are specified in your

XSCHEM_LIBARY_PATH

list of directories. In such cases when loading a schematic xschem will scan the

XSCHEM_LIBRARY_PATH

list of directories in the order they are defined and pick the first matching symbol name. There is no easy solution to specify the first one or the second one, one simple possibility is to switch the order of directories in the

XSCHEM_LIBRARY_PATH

search path. The other suggestion is to avoid having the search path going down to the last level directory containing the symbols but stop one level above (as explained in the tutorial linked above). If you instantiate

devices/diode.sym

and

mylib/diode.sym

and the search path ends one level dir above

mylib

and

devices

there is no confusion, since

mylib/diode.sym

!=

devices/diode.sym

. Keep in mind however that spice does not allow anyway to have 2 '`diode.sym'` models with the same name, so never use in your design components with identical names from different directories.

@Stefan Schippers why do

xschem_library/devices/

and

xschem_library/

contain a lot of duplicates? It doesn't seem to on your github repo. but I guess the installer did that?

@Tom try to look at the date of some of these files, are they all very recent?

Ah,

devices/

are all from Jan 3rd (probably my last install, and the files in

devices/../

are all from December

no i did not, will check history, i have tried an install here but did not see problems. Just delete the old files,

That's strange. I'm not sure how it happened then. Anyway, I deleted the old files and reinstalled and they remained deleted, but thanks for the confirmation