[Noisebridge-discuss] Interest check: HDL/FPGA for noobs class?

[Robert "Finny" Merrill]

On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 10:43 PM, D J Capelis <mail at capelis.dj> wrote:

>
> I have.  It's only a little weird, as most proprietary software running on
> Linux tends to be.  I guess notably there's a settings script that you need
> to run before invoking any of their tools that creates and modifies some
> environment variables.  I use my own wrapper script that adds a few of my
> own variables (mostly for licensing), calls their scripts and invokes the
> Xilinx tools using a subshell that keeps my main shell clean.  The good
> news is that the installer is actually fairly respectful leaving most of
> the rest of your system alone and functionality-wise, it seems to work as
> well as ISE does on other platforms.
>

Quartus does the same thing. It has its own lib directory with its own
binary versions of standard libraries, which is a bit annoying because when
it tries to spawn processes (like a web browser to read the documentation)
they inherit the LD_LIBRARY_PATH and will sometimes explode because
libstdc++ is compiled with the wrong version of gcc
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