Re: gEDA-user: xinstall problems -- otherwise impressive

2003-10-27 Thread Ales Hvezda
Hi Phil, >I've checked previous threads and have been unable to find similar >problems reported by others, and am curious to see if there is something >i am overlooking. No, you are doing everything right. make xinstall and setup are the newest members of the gEDA/gaf family and hence st

Re: gEDA-user: Gdatabase and datadraw available for download

2003-10-27 Thread Ales Hvezda
Hi All, [snip] >I am personally agnostic 'cause I've programmed in both languages. >However, I have a few comments to make, followed by a question. Before this degenerates into a holy flame war of scripting languages, (oops too late :-), let me add my two cents also based on my experience with t

gEDA-user: netlist simulation problems

2003-10-27 Thread Phillip Whitt
Hi again everyone. i'm having problems with spice simulations. i have ngspice installed and working standalone- however geda doesn't seem to integrate with it. i am seeing errors regarding "easy_spice" and it being an unknown command. what is easy_spice and why wasn't it installed with the requ

Re: gEDA-user: xinstall problems -- otherwise impressive

2003-10-27 Thread Terry Porter
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 18:29:55 -0500 (EST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stuart Brorson) wrote: > I don't like to slag off anybody's contribution to a free software > project. Anybody who makes a contribution should be lauded. But I > will say that I have never been able to successfully install gEDA > excep

Re: gEDA-user: system task calling with iverilog

2003-10-27 Thread Stephen Williams
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, What are the system tasks that iverilog support? I like to use $fscanf, $dumpvar, $readmemh, $ungetc and etc for my code. I didn't have a problem compileing with iverilog for these codes, but when I tried to run this with vvp, I am getting all errors for these tasks. I

Re: gEDA-user: Minor tweaks to partslist package

2003-10-27 Thread Stuart Brorson
Hi Ales, > [snip] > >I have placed a tar.gz file with the new, updated programs at: > > > >http://www.brorson.com/gEDA/gschem/partslist.tar.gz > > > >You can do with them what you want; I find it important to have the > >footprint attribute, and I think that this small tweak will be helpful > >to

Re: gEDA-user: xinstall problems -- otherwise impressive

2003-10-27 Thread Stuart Brorson
I don't like to slag off anybody's contribution to a free software project. Anybody who makes a contribution should be lauded. But I will say that I have never been able to successfully install gEDA except via the manual way (i.e. download all the .tar.gz files, gunzip them individually, and the

gEDA-user: system task calling with iverilog

2003-10-27 Thread jean . kim
Hi, What are the system tasks that iverilog support? I like to use $fscanf, $dumpvar, $readmemh, $ungetc and etc for my code. I didn't have a problem compileing with iverilog for these codes, but when I tried to run this with vvp, I am getting all errors for these tasks. Is there anyone who has th

Re: gEDA-user: Gdatabase and datadraw available for download

2003-10-27 Thread Stuart Brorson
Hi -- Please excuse me while I muddy the waters. . . . . > > The gEDA code base uses guile. The other obvious choice is TCL. Other > > than being compatible with gEDA, is there a good reason to base the code > > on guile? FPGA designers generally will be willing to use TCL for > > timing co

gEDA-user: xinstall problems -- otherwise impressive

2003-10-27 Thread Phillip Whitt
Hi All, I've checked previous threads and have been unable to find similar problems reported by others, and am curious to see if there is something i am overlooking. when i try to run xinstall, i receive the following: [snip] Checking for tar ... Checking for gcc ... Checking for wget ... Checkin

Re: gEDA-user: Gdatabase and datadraw available for download

2003-10-27 Thread Dan McMahill
On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 08:08:25AM -0500, Bill Cox wrote: > > The gEDA code base uses guile. The other obvious choice is TCL. Other > than being compatible with gEDA, is there a good reason to base the code > on guile? FPGA designers generally will be willing to use TCL for > timing constrai

Re: gEDA-user: "Got an invalid net= attrib" what does it mean?

2003-10-27 Thread Bob Paddock
> >"Got an invalid net= attribute" > Are you netlisting a hierarchical schematic? Can you send me > your schematics, since I am having a hard time reproducing this error After much hair pulling I did find the problem. I had net=GND rather than net=GND:1 . Since there are lots of ground