JUAN ANTONIO FARRE BASURTE wrote: I've been trying to compile the alliance libraries under Slackware Linux v.3.2. It looks like I have problems with the parser. The version of bison in this release gives some errors and finally I get almost no tool compiled. I changed it with yacc. It gives some kind of warnings, and the result are files that don't compile very well. I've seen errors compiling the X tools. One header file (I suppose generated by yacc) has function prototypes with no named argument, just (...), which won't compile in ANSI C. I also see lots of warnings as "making a pointer from an integer without a cast" and so on. I get no X-windows tool and running genpat it says that it doesn't find some library. Alliance has not been updated since Linux 1.0.9 and GCC 2.5.0 or even earlier. The genlib debugger (genview) is still based on a gcc 1.<something. Making the tools at least compile on a modern Linux platform is a job requiring some programming knowledge and a few days of time. I succeeded in making all the tools compile, but had time to verify only a few of them, and not very thoroughly. Most of the problems are not difficult to correct: just sloppy programming, confusing 0 with NULL and so on. Recently, I heard that a new version of Alliance is going to be released, so I advice you to wait for this version if you can (ask Gilles Descamps at cao-vlsi@masi.ibp.fr for details, but he will not give you an official release date). If what you need is the library from the Alliance package, they now can supply a version and some software to work with it in a Cadence environment. I'm working in a project at the University using the alliance libraries. So, I am very interested in this new version. I'd like to know if they will be publically available, if I'll be able to find them in ftp.ibp.fr as before or where and if they'll be compilable under last version of Linux. If it's possi- ble, I'd need to know more or less about when will they be available, because I must finish the project in September and it would be a good thing to know if I shoud expect to get them before or not. Thank you very much. Juan Farre ----- End of forwarded message from Aldo Mozzi ----- -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - END-OF-MAIL