PaulHowarth/Blog/2013-10-16

Wednesday 16th October 2013

Fedora Project

  • Updated gtkwave to 3.3.50 in F-20 and Rawhide:

    • Limit number of rows that can be displayed in mouseover in order to prevent potential X11 crashes on extremely wide signals
    • Added "/File/Grab To File" PNG image grab menu option

    • Added missing $dumpvars emission in fst2vcd

    • Added missing atto and zepto time prefix parsing in vcd2fst

    • Added VHDL package type to FST
    • Added red box around 'U' vector values for VHDL similar to 'X' for Verilog

    • Used FST "attribute name" for variable types if specified
    • CRLF fix for save file reading on LF-only systems
    • Fix Valgrind hit in fst.c that was causing crashes on OSX

    • Added fstWriterSetFiletype() and fstReaderGetFiletype() to provide sim language hint to gtkwave for language-appropriate formatting of various data

    • Added fstWriterSetSourceStem() so writers can embed source stems in the FST file (specify before the appropriate hierarchy or variable declaration)

    • Added gtkwave_bin_launcher.sh script to set up environment variables on OSX for running the bin/ directory files from a terminal rather than as an app invocation

Local Packages

  • Updated gtkwave to 3.3.50 as per the Fedora version

  • Updated perl-Sub-Install to 0.927:

    • Rebuild using Dist::Zilla, update links to repo, metadata, etc.

    • Typo fixes
  • Updated perl-Text-Haml to 0.990110


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