Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report.
Summary: Review Request: alliance - Alliance VLSI CAD Sytem
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=248649
------- Additional Comments From cgoorah@yahoo.com.au 2007-07-17 17:45 EST ------- Some notes about this package: #1: this is a Hardware Development CAD. The headers included in the main package are not an error or a mistake, but useful for some %_bindir/*. In other words, it is important for the working(normal) environment of the user. (note: don't get confuse with headers of a normal application and the hardware CAD)
#2: The design tools at %_bindir/* are used in a collectively way following the design flow. http://www-asim.lip6.fr/recherche/alliance//doc/design-flow/flow.html If one of the %_bindir/* is buggy it may affect the entire design flow.
#3: I wrote a simple tutorial for trial: http://chitlesh.googlepages.com/full_adder_alliance
#4: Alliance depends heavily on %{prefix} (careful not %{_prefix}). Most of the sources have hardcoded paths to %{prefix}. Patching the dozens of Makefiles isn't enough.
#5: Makefiles on the -doc Makefiles are present in alliance-examples/*. It is normal because * it gives the VLSI designer a template on how to create his own Makefile for alliance (VLSI designers normally don't know how to do so) * it is not part of the build, but part of the _working_ environment of the user
#6: on the build.log there are lines about : libtool: install: warning: `/builddir/build/BUILD/alliance-5.0/mbk/src/libMut.la' has not been installed in `/usr/lib' I have no idea what to do with it. Any suggestion is welcome. http://tux.u-strasbg.fr/~chit/alliance/F-8/build.log
I tried to comment as much as I can on the SPEC file.