Dan McMahill wrote: > Has anyone looked at gnetman? I think that was part of > the idea there. The author of that tool has quite a bit of > experience in netlist databases so it may be a useful > starting place. Even if none of the code is used, there > may be some good ideas there. It also may be useful as an example of what not to do.
For starters, it is over 50000 lines of code. That is comparable in size to all of gnucap. I couldn't figure out how to use it. Something about TCL scripts, etc. When I tried to build it (on my laptop, which doesn't have much installed), it took a few tries to get it to work. First, the configure script crashed. (See why I like autoconf so much???) Among the gibberish preceding the crash, I recognized the string "TCL", so I figured the crash might have something to do with the language called TCL, which wasn't installed, so I installed TCL. That got through the configuration, but it still failed to compile. The first message was that it couldn't find a certain header X11/something. Strange .. What is it using X for? I did not have the X development package installed, only the user stuff, so I installed the X development packages. Then I could compile it. As usual, autoconf didn't help. I thought the need for the X development tools to be strange for something that shouldn't be X dependent. I also wondered why it was allowed to go all the way to the compile phase before finding it, or why if TCL needs it, TCL didn't bring it in (Debian package problem?). I still think AWK will do the job. AWK is good for small programs, perhaps a hundred lines or so at the biggest. That is the size I expect a Spice to Verilog-A translator to be. _______________________________________________ Gnucap-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucap-devel
