libc5 development thanks, EDA apps info
Hi,
Thanks for doing such a good job with the hamm development. I ran into
a problem last week, but was able to solve it because debian supports
libc5 development on libc6.
I'm using a debian platform for work which includes a commercial
verilog simulator for designing ASICs (application specific integrated
circuits). The simulator translates verilog to c and then uses the
user's compiler to build an executable program. The translation steps
seemed to be working fine, but the final executable was seg faulting.
strace showed that this was happening when trying to access the serial
port dongle. I eventually ran ldd and noticed that the original
applications were libc5 based, but the final executable was libc6.
I downloaded altgcc and the libc5-dev packages. I never found any
documentation, but "dpkg -L" showed another gcc. I ran this version of
gcc to build a new executable and everything worked.
Thanks for working to get libc5 support. Without it, I would have needed
to downgrade my machine to bo and wait for the vendor's libc6 support or
install another machine to run the simulator.
If anyone is interested, I'm using finsim (www.fintronic.com) and
undertow (www.veritools-web.com) on linux. speedsim is another verilog
linux simulator available from quickturn. I think it was ~$40K list
price while finsim was $10K list. finsim also matched our NCVerilog
runs from hp workstations perfectly while speedsim didn't and we didn't
have time to investigate the differences. Design Acceleration offers
a waveform viewer similar to undertow, but they were requiring a sun
license server to authenticate the linux boxes. I'm only using linux in
my home office, so that wasn't very attractive.
Thanks again,
Lee
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Lee Bradshaw lee@sectionIV.com (preferred)
Alantro Communications lee@alantro.com
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