On Wednesday 10 February 2010 09:00:59 am Tom Kuiper wrote: > For reasons that are implicit in this finding, I suggest that if you > have a lot of locally developed software running under a Debian-like > distribution, that you buy a new computer dedicated to the Xilinx > toolflow (and any other RH-only supported software). Converting all > your existing code from Debian to RH will prove very labor intensive.
Huh? I'm sorry, but if you have even halfway portable code that is absolutely not the case. My primary development platform is Debian, but _many_ of the systems that I run on are RHEL5 based (NRAO runs RHEL5). As long as any Linux system is modern, there should be _no_ porting issues. One thing that _is_ tricky is the GNU transition from g77 to gfortran as the ABI has changed several times. But I don't suspect many people on this list are using Fortran for their development. And another tricky thing potentially is 32-bit to 64-bit. But that has nothing to do with Debian to RHEL either. Bottom line: if you write good ANSI C, all you'll have to do is re-make on RHEL. Scott -- Scott M. Ransom Address: NRAO Phone: (434) 296-0320 520 Edgemont Rd. email: [email protected] Charlottesville, VA 22903 USA GPG Fingerprint: 06A9 9553 78BE 16DB 407B FFCA 9BFA B6FF FFD3 2989
