Hi Mark,
I have recently tried to install Xilinx 11.4 and have run into a
standard exception error involving the System Generator generated perl
script MasterScriptXXX.pl. This error has occurred on Ubuntu 8.04, 9.10
and Fedora 12. Xilinx support would not answer questions until I
installed a supported OS (Red Hat Enterprise 5 or Suse Enterprise Linux
10). I tried RHE5 and the error went away and my design compiled. A
possible free alternative is CentOS and is supposed to follow the same
distribution cycle and carry the same packages and versions as RHE5, but
I have not tried this and I doubt Xilinx would support it.
The cost of a RHE5 license is zero compared to say, a switch, so I think
that's the option we're looking at here in Berkeley.
I can't speak to whether ISE works under Centos. However,
we use the OS for all our machines here at the CARMA
observatory, and we have no complaints. I'd recommend
trying it to see if ISE is happy.
Cheers,
Dave
