Re: gEDA-user: Icarus Verilog 0.8.1 SPARC Binaries

[Joshua Boyd <jdboyd@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 01:12:57PM -0800, Stephen Williams wrote:
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> An anonymous contributer has graciously made packages of
> Icarus Verilog 0.8.1 for Solaris 8 SPARC. These packages are
> here for download. I have no means to test them, so success
> reports are welcome.
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> <ftp://ftp.icarus.com/pub/eda/verilog/v0.8/Solaris/>

That package didn't work for me.  In fact, it not only didn't work, but
it messed up the system a bit.

On the Solaris machine I tried it on /usr/local is a symlink to a
directory on a larger file system.  Installing this package removed the
symlink and created a new directory.  The Sun Freeware and other
packages I've installed have no problem with /usr/local being a
symlink.  

When I tried to run iverilog from that package, it complained about
missing libstdc++.so.6 (I think that was the file name.  I failed to
save the error before removing the package, and I'm not letting it have
another go at messing things up).  I think this just means that it wants
to have GCC installed for it to run.  However, I believe that file name
refers to a newer version of GCC then some people may have
(libstdc++.so.5 seems to be what comes with gcc 3.2).  It might be
better for this package to be statically linked.

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Joshua D. Boyd
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