# Alliance VLSI CAD System
# Copyright (C) 1990, 2000 ASIM/LIP6/UPMC
#
# Home page          : http://www-asim.lip6.fr/alliance/
# E-mail support     : mailto:alliance-support@asim.lip6.fr
# ftp site           : ftp://ftp-asim.lip6.fr/pub/alliance/
#
# $Id: README,v 1.4 2000/01/25 16:28:31 czo Exp $


# Alliance 
# ===================================================================
           
                        Alliance VLSI CAD System 
           Copyright (C) Laboratoire LIP6 - Dpartement ASIM
                    Universite Pierre et Marie Curie
                            4, place Jussieu
                          75252 Paris Cedex 05
                                 France


"Alliance VLSI CAD System" is free Software.

Alliance is available under the terms of the GNU General Public License
GPL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html).

You are welcome to use the software package even for commercial 
designs without any fee. You are just required to mention : 

" Designed with Alliance CAD system,
  Copyright (C) 1991, 2000 Universit Pierre et Marie Curie"

You can get Alliance via anonymous FTP from ftp.lip6.fr

       ftp://ftp-asim.lip6.fr/pub/alliance/


# Requirements
# ===================================================================

It is strongly recommended to have gcc and other gnu tools 
(gmake, gawk ...) installed on your system.

For graphical applications you will also need :

 - X11R6 libraries (http://www.x.org/)
 
 - Motif 1.2 libraries (You can find a free Motif clone at
   http://www.lesstif.org/)
   Rpms for linux RedHat 6 of lesstif-0.88 are available at
   ftp://ftp-asim.lip6.fr/pub/alliance/redist/   

# Compiling Alliance package
# ===================================================================

1/ Unpack alliance-XXX-common.tar.gz and alliance-XXX-sources.tar.gz
   in the same dir. (where XXX is revision number)

2/ cd to the alliance/source directory then run the "build" command
 
   > ./build
   
   
The "build" command creates the "archi" directory architecture, 

   - the dir share & sources already exists
   - Linux_elf is a sample for $ALLIANCE_OS=Linux_elf

 alliance ---+- archi -------- Linux_elf --+- bin 
             |                             |- cells -> ../../share/cells/ 
             |                             |- doc -> ../../share/doc/ 
             |                             |- etc -> ../../share/etc/ 
             |                             |- include 
             |                             |- lib 
             |                             |- man -> ../../share/man/ 
             |                             `- tutorials -> ../../share/tutorials/ 
             |- share ------+- cells ------+- amg 
             |              |- etc 
             |              `- tutorials --+- ......
             |- sources ----+- ......

then runs the "configure" script, then the "makefile"

If your OS is recognized as "Unknown", you will need to edit 
configure.in alc_env.sh.in and alc_env.csh.in and run autoconf
for that those script use a good $ALLIANCE_OS name. If 
libraries (X11, Motif/LessTiff, readline ...) or tools (sed, 
gawk, ...) are missing, you will have to install them.

If the "build" command fails, please try to run by hand every steps.

3/ link $ALLIANCE_TOP/etc/alc_env.{c}sh to /etc/profile.d
   or source this environment each time you want to use Alliance.

# EOF


