linked cds.lib issue!

Hi,

We have a group project where individual users
have different work-areas to launch icfb from.
We have a central cds.lib where each user's
workarea has a link to it so that each user will
see the same libraries as every other user.
i.e., the dir structure is something like below:

/home/project
/home/project/cds.lib
/home/project/user1
/home/project/user1/cds.lib -> ../cds.lib
/home/project/user2
/home/project/user2/cds.lib -> ../cds.lib

Now, when a user creates a new library, Cadence
(5.0.32) is CONVERTING the link to a file and the
cds.lib will be copied to the user's directory
with an entry to the new library added to it.
This is killing the purpose of each user should
be able to access every other user's libraries.

Is there a reason why Cadence can not add the new
library entry to a "linked cds.lib" file?

I really appreciate your quick
workaround/solution if one can suggest.


thanks, Manju

 

Roger:
SOFTINCLUDE whatever/cds.lib
---
Erik

 

This does not solve his problem. If user1 makes new library, there is no way
that user2 sees it.

My opinion is that the best is to arrange common design area. Each user can
protect his files by setting the permission for his library to be read only.
And of course each of them can keep his files in his home directory, so he
can also limit the access to the files themselves.

Hristo

 

Hi,

we have nearly the same environment and also work
with a central cds.lib file, but without links
rather than I force the tools to find the cds.lib
at the central location with the following SKILL
code in the .cdsinit.

;; forcing cds.lib file path for all updates/creates

ddSetForcedLib( strcat( t_projectDir "/cds.lib" ) )
ddUpdateLibList( )

where t_projectDir in your case has to be /home/project


Hope this helps.

Bernd

 

That's exactly what I was going to suggest!

BTW, the reason for the "problem" is that we don't modify the file in
place, but rather write a new file to the side and move it in place (I think).
This is done to prevent the file getting lost if the disk fills up - if you just
overwrote the file, and then something else caused the disk to fill up in
the meantime, you might lose the contents.

The downside of course is that links get trampled on.

Andrew.

 

Thanks for the msgs so far.

The requirements are:

1. Each user should see each others libraries (new as well as existing
libraries)

2. The common libraries (sheets_lib, analogLib etc) should loaded only
once
per session. If I load a common libraries and the next user also loads
common libraries (in their respective cds.lib), when he loads my
cds.lib, he will get to load the common libraries again (kind of
recursive loading!) which Cadence doesn't like and gives bunch of
warnings.

WONDERING about any SKILL command is there to load the cds.lib thru
..cdsinit file?

Having a DM solves this problem???

thanks for your time,
Manju