Mark Wagner wrote:
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 have a feeling that if you dig a little deeper you may find that Perl
is trying to use a relocatable library that it can't find. You probably
have it and can find it with 'locate'. A symlink may then solve the
problem.
Changing OS to RH will cause a big headache if you have locally compiled
headaches.
I suspect that, like Microsoft, this is a game RH plays to freeze out
the competition. I imagine that vendors like RH because they can have a
commercial relationship with them, especially technical support, unlike,
say, Debian.
Cheers
Tom
