ISE Foundation/BaseX 7.1i evaluation for Linux

They screwed up the installer on 7.1 and made it distribution dependent. Specifically the installer requires some out of date libraries. I wasn't able to install 7.1 on Fedora Core 3 or Mandrake 10.1 because of library issues. I ended up putting Whitebox Linux on one of my older machines (Whitebox is RHEL 3.0) and doing the install there. Once I'd done the install on the WB system I rsynced the directory over to my FC3 systems and it works fine. The tools themselves don't seem to have any distribution dependencies, the c*ck-up is limited to the installer.

I wonder if xilinx could provide an updated installer (only) so that we all could install the tools on our favorite linux distro.

It should be just a recompile of xilsetup ...

How about it ?

I'll volunteer to beta test on 32 and 64 bit AMD platforms ...

Best Regards, rudi ============================================================= Rudolf Usselmann, ASICS World Services,

I've filed a webcase for Fedora Core 3. I've suggested that they statically link the installer so that it's not library dependent. It would probably be useful if other people would file cases for other distributions. There is no reason for there to be any distribution dependencies, the code can either be statically linked or the libraries included with the tools. In fact I think they have done the right thing when it comes to the tools themselves, I'm not having any trouble running them on Fedora Core 3. It is just the installer that has a problem.

Well, they also screwed up the WebPack installer apparently ;( A don't have any RHEL 3.0 handy to install and copy, I'll have to find another way.

Sylvain

I used Whitebox,

CentOS has just released 4.0 but you don't want that one, it's RHEL 4 which probably doesn't work, get 3.4.

Same here - I too don't have a commercial Linux package "lying around". I am very glad to hear that the tools otherwise seem to work just fine with FC3. I am very disappointed to see that this Wind/U crap is still being used ...

Is there anyway to escalate this within Xilinx ? Web-cases can take a while to resolve ... can somebody from xilinx provide a static version of the installer ? Perhaps in a restricted download area ?

Best Regards, rudi ============================================================= Rudolf Usselmann, ASICS World Services,

Apparently just installing openmotif did the trick ( missing libXm.so.3 was the problem ) I'm on gentoo btw

Sylvain

Well, I get an error about libcurl.so.2, I only have libcurl.so.3.0.0. I tried creating an symbolic linking from libcurl.so.2 to libcurl.so.3.0.0 but this doesn't work:

------ echelon tmp # ./WebPACK_71_fcfull_i.sh Verifying archive integrity... All good. Uncompressing Xilinx ISE WebPACK Installer.............................................................................................................................................................................. /tmp/selfgz27591/platform/lin/bin/lin Cannot register service: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection refused unable to register (registryProg, registryVers, tcp) Wind/U Error (248): Failed to connect to the registry on server echelon _X11TransSocketOpen: socket() failed for tcp _X11TransSocketOpenCOTSClient: Unable to open socket for tcp _X11TransOpen: transport open failed for tcp/echelon:0 Wind/U X-toolkit Error: wuDisplay: Can't open display

echelon tmp #

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So, any idea what to do about this.

Thanks, Preben (at the gentoo-box)

I wouldn't expect it to.

I used libcurl extracted from the curl RPM for Fedora Core 2, and it worked fine.

I posted instructions for using 6.3i and 7.1i on Fedora Core 3, which can be found on Google Groups:

I think most of the information would be generally applicable to other distributions.

Eric