I forgot to say that the port installs the "magic.1" man page; this
isn't a real conflict with magic(5), but could be a bit confusing;
please let me know if it is worth to change the man page name (is
something like magic-vlsi more appropriate?)
On 07/03/2019 06:12, Alessandro DE LAURENZIS wrote:
> Dear ports@ readers,
>
> this is a proposal for a new port: magic 8.1.224, a venerable VLSI
> layout tool, written in the 1980's at Berkeley by John Ousterhout (now
> famous primarily for Tcl), still very popular with universities and
> small companies, and an integral part of Qflow (not yet in the tree),
> where it is used as layout viewer and for parasitics extraction and DRC
> (but it can do a lot more).
>
> DESCR
> =====
>> Magic is an interactive system for creating and modifying VLSI
>> circuit layouts. It is used to design basic cells and to combine
>> them hierarchically into large structures.
>>
>> Magic understands quite a bit about the nature of circuits. It has
>> built-in knowledge of layout rules; during editing, it continuously
>> checks for rule violations. Magic also knows about connectivity and
>> transistors, and contains a built-in hierarchical circuit extractor.
>> It has a plow operation that permits to stretch or compact cells.
>> Lastly, Magic has routing tools to make the circuit interconnections.
>>
>> Magic is based on the Mead-Conway style of design: it uses simplified
>> design rules and circuit structures that make it easier layout drawing
>> and permit Magic to provide powerful assistance, at the cost of
>> slightly less dense circuits.
>
> There are 2 branches, distribution (8.1) and development (8.2); the
> former is now reasonably stable, and should be expected to work without
> undue issues; let's stay on that.
>
> Upstream configure script is a wrapper around the one actually generated
> by autoconf, so I used:
>
> CONFIGURE_STYLE = simple
>
> and patched it adding -std=c89 and -Wno-parentheses to CFLAGS, in order
> to get rid of the huge amount of Wimplicit-function-declaration and
> Wno-parentheses warnings.
>
> Upstream makefile has been patched in order to log errors and warnings
> to stdout.
>
> Other patches have essentially to do with termios functions; in
> particular, txGetTermState is not defined is OpenBSD; please carefully
> review what I made in patches/patch-textio_txInput_c, since I just tried
> to adapt some code found on the Internet used for similar situations;
> neither I really understand if those functions are actually needed when
> the Tcl/Tk version is used (this is the case for our port).
>
> Taking MAINTAINER, tarball attached.
>
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Alessandro DE LAURENZIS
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