[Pkg-electronics-devel] Debian package for SystemC

[Tarik Graba]

On 26/06/2018 à 17:04, أحمد المحمودي wrote :
> On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 07:36:00PM +0100, Tarik Graba wrote:
>> Now that SystemC is distributed under the terms of the Apache License
>> (see ref at the end of the mail) there is no obstacle to have a Debian
>> package for it.
>>
>> Moreover, the Verilator Debian package actually suggests a SystemC
>> package that does not exist.  Having an official SystemC package in
>> Debian repositories could be very useful to easily build verification
>> environment based on Verilator + SystemC.
>>
>> Also, the configuration script has a "--with-unix-layout" option that
>> allows to install the libraries/sources/docs using standard "unix" paths
>> which can help the packaging. There is a user contributed package for
>> ArchLinux (AUR:Arch User Repository) that is built using this option.
>>
>>
>> Relicensing announcement:
>>  http://www.accellera.org/news/press-releases/227-accellera-announces-relicensing-of-systemc-reference-implementation-under-the-apache-2-0-license
>>
>> Archlinux AUR package:
>>  https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/systemc/
> ---end quoted text---
> 
> Sorry for the late reply. I was offline.
> 
> Iztok Jeras mailed me about this in 2012, he did some work on that on 
> his PPA:
> 
> If I find time, I will try to continue from where he left it.
> Iztok: did you do any other work on yhat since you mailed me ?
> 

Hi,

Sorry but I did not find the courage to start working on packaging SystemC.

But, what I can tell is that it is still maintained and have evolved to
support recent compilers (tested with Stretch's gcc 6.3.0 and even with
gcc 7.x on Arch).
Also, since 2.3 version there is a configure option
(`--with-unix-layout`) to use a standard unix directory structure which
makes it easy to install in `/usr/{include,lib,share/doc}`.


Hope this helps,

Tarik