[Pkg-electronics-devel] [Ghdl-discuss] Solutions of "Debian package maintainer has retired"

[Joris van Rantwijk]

Hello Christiano,

These are useful suggestions for Debian users who just need to get GHDL
running, no matter what. However these are not solutions for the lack of
a Debian package.

The sid package works, but is based on an old version of the GHDL
source and depends on an old version of GNAT and conflicts with
up-to-date versions of GNAT. The upstream binary release of GHDL is very
old and only available for 32-bit. Neither of these methods are able to
provide a problem-free, up-to-date installation of GHDL.

I still think that an up-to-date Debian package for GHDL would be
very useful to many people. Building GHDL from upstream source is quite
difficult, and the upstream project does not provide up-to-date binary
releases.

The only way to get there is if a Debian maintainer steps up to take
over the retired package. In the mean time:
http://jorisvr.nl/ghdl_debian.html

Joris.

On 2013-07-12, Christiano wrote:
> su
> echo "deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian sid main"
> >> /etc/apt/sources.list apt-get update
> apt-get install ghdl
> 
> Or
> 
> su
> apt-get install zlib1g-dev
> wget http://ghdl.free.fr/ghdl-0.29-i686-pc-linux.tar
> tar -xvf ghdl-0.29-i686-pc-linux.tar
> tar -C / -jxvf ghdl-0.29-i686-pc-linux/ghdl-0.29-i686-pc-linux.tar.bz2