Xilinx ISE 6.3i on Gentoo Linux

Don't know anything about Gentoo, I use Fedora, but you need to make sure that you have a set of legacy libraries installed. The Xilinx tools are targeted at an obsolete version of RHEL, RHEL 3. The installer in particular is very distribution sensitive although the tools themselves seem to work fine on modern distributions. I keep a copy of the Whitebox version of RHEL 3 on one of my machines. I do the installs there and then rsync the xilinx directory to my other machines that are running FC3.

Ahh... That's interesting. I'm just going through the motions of setting up an older glibc environment. But, if it's just the installer that requires this, then your solution sounds like a much easier alternative. I'll give it a try. Thanks

After dealing with ISE7.1 for a couple of days trying to install i under Fedora, Whitebox and some other distro I forgot, I gave in an installed CentOS3 (3.4 I believe); it installed on the first try an runs nicely. It's a RHEL3 clon, so all the libraries should match

HTH

-P

Well, I've managed to get ISE to install. But then getting it to run seems to be a problem.

I've created a page with install instructions. It can be found here:

Hopefully I'll soon be able to add a 'How to run' section!! Any ideas would be REALLY appreciated.

Andy