Creating combined libraries

[Roger Light]

Hi,

Reading around the documentation of our new IC 6.1 install, I've found
the section on creating combined libraries in libManager.pdf. This makes
me very very happy, but I've not been able to get them to work.

I've tried with different libraries and ASSIGNs and even with the
following line I see nothing extra in the library manager:

ASSIGN newLib COMBINE analogLib basic

I'm not using lib.defs files (I've even set DD_USE_LIBDEFS to NO to be
on the safe side). There are no warnings or errors in the library
manager log. Enabling/disabling different library display styles doesn't
seem to make any difference.

Has anyone had combined libraries working in Virtuoso 6.1.3.1? Am I
doing something stupid?

Thanks,

Roger

 

[Andrew Beckett]

Roger Light wrote, on 12/15/08 14:01:

Hi,

Reading around the documentation of our new IC 6.1 install, I've found
the section on creating combined libraries in libManager.pdf. This makes
me very very happy, but I've not been able to get them to work.

I've tried with different libraries and ASSIGNs and even with the
following line I see nothing extra in the library manager:

ASSIGN newLib COMBINE analogLib basic

I'm not using lib.defs files (I've even set DD_USE_LIBDEFS to NO to be
on the safe side). There are no warnings or errors in the library
manager log. Enabling/disabling different library display styles doesn't
seem to make any difference.

Has anyone had combined libraries working in Virtuoso 6.1.3.1? Am I
doing something stupid?

Thanks,

Roger

Roger,

You must have a definition of newLib as well as the ASSIGN statement. For example:

DEFINE newLib ./newLib
ASSIGN newLib COMBINE analogLib basic

Note that the DEFINE _must_ be before the ASSIGN, otherwise it doesn't work.

I just tried this to make sure - it doesn't work if you don't have the DEFINE
(as indicated in the documentation), and it doesn't work if the DEFINE is
_after_ the ASSIGN (not surprising, since there is nothing to assign to yet...)

Regards,

Andrew.

 

[Roger Light]

On 2009-01-01, Andrew Beckett <andrewb@DcEaLdEeTnEcTe.HcIoSm> wrote:

You must have a definition of newLib as well as the ASSIGN statement. For example:

DEFINE newLib ./newLib
ASSIGN newLib COMBINE analogLib basic

Ahhh, so you're saying that it works in exactly the same way as all of
the other DEFINEs/ASSIGNs and I just ignored that part. Gotcha It's
working great now thanks.

Cheers,

Roger