From 84c76096cbd0dc34f2c56953e969bbe976185480 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthias Koefferlein <matthias@klayout.de>
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2025 15:01:44 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fixed issue #2169: adding path to 'python' and 'ruby'
 subfolders to interpreter search path also for technologies, not only for
 packages.

---
 src/lay/lay/layMacroController.cc | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/lay/lay/layMacroController.cc b/src/lay/lay/layMacroController.cc
index 026eceb0f..05a21bfbe 100644
--- a/src/lay/lay/layMacroController.cc
+++ b/src/lay/lay/layMacroController.cc
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
 #include "lymMacroInterpreter.h"
 #include "lymMacro.h"
 #include "gsiDecl.h"
+#include "tlFileUtils.h"
 
 #include <QDir>
 #include <QUrl>
@@ -354,6 +355,8 @@ MacroController::sync_package_paths ()
 {
   std::vector<std::string> package_locations;
 
+  //  Add package locations for packages
+
   lay::SaltController *sc = lay::SaltController::instance ();
   if (sc) {
     lay::Salt &salt = sc->salt ();
@@ -362,6 +365,15 @@ MacroController::sync_package_paths ()
     }
   }
 
+  //  Add package locations for technologies which share the same structure
+
+  for (db::Technologies::const_iterator t = db::Technologies::instance ()->begin (); t != db::Technologies::instance ()->end (); ++t) {
+    std::string bd = t->base_path ();
+    if (! bd.empty () && tl::is_dir (bd)) {
+      package_locations.push_back (bd);
+    }
+  }
+
   //  refresh the package locations by first removing the package locations and then rebuilding
   //  TODO: maybe that is a performance bottleneck, but right now, remove_package_location doesn't do a lot.