Obligatory car analogy! I have a race car that's highly modified and hand-built and tuned. I race it on Friday nights. It's fun to play with, drive, and work on.
But I drive my old subaru station wagon to work most days (unless we take my wife's Legacy GT turbo...), because I just want to get to work, not play with the car. Now, you young whippersnappers stay off my lawn while you play with your newfangled OS and other toys... :) John > I too find RHEL a very frustrating OS to use on a day-to-day basis. > But it seems the Xilinx tools rely on some of those ancient libraries > that RedHat packages. We've had some success with installing newwer > Debian-based distros, and then manually adding the older libraries > (perl is the big annoyance). But this is far from reliable and not > recommended. As Dan says, we've found some quirky behaviour where some > designs compile and others do not. > > If you insist on running something other than RHEL (as I do), then I > can suggest you get yourself a copy of the full RHEL5 root filesystem > and do a chroot before starting matlab/xilinx tools. It works > reliably, but is painful to setup (not to mention that it consumes > ~20GB of diskspace). This is not something a Linux newbie should try > and is not recommended for those who are not familiar with these tools > and concepts. You can also do things like faking the hostname (using > chname) and the ethernet adaptor's MAC (must be eth0; set up a null > tap device) to ease licensing troubles when upgrading or moving your > compile environment to a different hardware platform. In this way, as > far as the toolflow is concerned, the system is RedHat (apart from the > kernel, which is mostly the same). > > I mention this to illustrate that there are other toolflow > possibilities. But please note that this is not a CASPER recommended > configuration and we can not (and will not) offer support for anything > other than a vanilla RHEL5 install. > > Jason > > On 21 May 2010 05:54, Dan Werthimer <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> hi bay, andy, >> >> i strongly recommend using Xilinx supported operating systems >> (eg: RHEL5). >> >> we've encountered some very strange bugs with other >> linux variants - these bugs don't appear like they might be operating >> system >> related, but when we switched over to RHEL5, the bugs vanished. >> >> also, xilinx will refuse to answer questions if you aren't using one of >> the >> operating systems they support. >> >> i'm hoping the bulk of the casper community will use RHEL5 or another >> xilinx supported system so we can all help each other. >> >> our group has switched to RHEL5 and i recommend it to other groups. >> >> dan >> >> >> >> >> >> On 5/20/2010 6:39 PM, Andrew Lutomirski wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 9:34 PM, John Ford<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>>> >>>>> Hi Bay, >>>>> >>>>> We had to move to RHEL5 (64-bit ok) to get versions above 11.3 >>>>> working. >>>>> I've heard that CentOS works too. >>>>> >>>> >>>> And you really need 64 bit... >>>> >>> >>> We're in the process of setting up a Fedora 13 system, since it's >>> annoying to have packages as old as RHEL's. Has anyone had any >>> trouble with that? >>> >>> (There's also RHEL6 Beta, but I haven't gotten that to install without >>> crashing, so I don't think it's quite ready for prime time.) >>> >>> --Andy >>> >>> >>>> >>>> John >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>>> Mark >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Bay E. Grabowski >>>>> <[email protected]>wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> We're setting up a new toolflow computer after Ubuntu stopped >>>>>> working. >>>>>> Should we be installing RHEL 64-bit install or 32-bit? The wiki >>>>>> mentions >>>>>> 64-bit in passing, but I remember there being some problems with >>>>>> 64-bit >>>>>> earlier... >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> Bay Grabowski >>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> >> >> > >
