Taking the advice to switch to Red Hat seems to have worked out. I actually
switched to Centos(it appears the only difference between the two is the name
and centos is free, Scientific Linux is also just a duplicate of Red Hat as far
as I can tell). I ran into a few errors along the way so I made a rough guide
to getting ISE 11.4 setup that might be helpful,
http://casper.berkeley.edu/wiki/Xilinx_ISE_11.4_Setup . I tested my setup as
far as compiling the ROACH wideband spectrometer tutorial, no problems so far.
-Griffin
On Feb 9, 2010, at 9:02 PM, Mark Wagner wrote:
HI Griffin,
I have not come up with a solution to this problem other than using a
supported OS (RHEL5). I did try exporting the variables you mentioned and
then generating a simple design again in Ubuntu, but am still getting the
same MasterScriptxxx.pl error.
At this point our solution is to migrate over to RHEL5. I wish we didn't
have to do this, but it's the only thing that seems to fix the problem and
will assure us Xilinx technical support for future issues.
Mark
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Griffin Foster griffin.fos...@gmail.com
wrote:
Well my coregen problem was a minor one(forgot to set my paths). But the next
issue i have is I get an NGC Netlisting Error. This comes up as a dialogue
box in matlab, it is rather long but the short of it is:
NGC Netlisting Error
[: 21:
/opt/Xilinx/11.1/ISE/lib/lin64: ... : unexpected operator
[: 22:
/opt/Xilinx/11.1/DSP_Tools/lin64/sysgen/lib: ... : unexpected operator
on my last email:
export PERL4LIB=/opt/Xilinx/11.1/DSP_Tools/lin64/sysgen/scripts;$PERLLIB
should be:
export PERLLIB=/opt/Xilinx/11.1/DSP_Tools/lin64/sysgen/scripts;$PERLLIB
-Griffin
On Feb 9, 2010, at 5:55 PM, John Ford wrote:
Hey Mark, I get the same error with ubuntu 9.10, xilinx 11.4. At first I
had a problem with perl looking for module with it's @INC variable, my fix
was to add the following lines to my .bashrc file:
export PERL5LIB=/opt/Xilinx/11.1/DSP_Tools/lin64/sysgen/scripts;$PERL5LIB
export PERL4LIB=/opt/Xilinx/11.1/DSP_Tools/lin64/sysgen/scripts;$PERLLIB
But that only got me down to line 329 of the masterscript.pl The
output to script_results I am now getting is 'Could not find the
coregen executable. at masterScript.pl line 329' . Did you find a
solution or does anyone else have any ideas about this? Thanks.
One thing we found with 11.3 on Linux was that somthing in the system does
not like symbolic links. Maybe that's part of this problem, but worse.
John
Yeah, I'm finding that they aren't working also.
-Griffin
On Feb 3, 2010, at 10:30 PM, Tom Kuiper wrote:
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
