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Hello,
The AR71715 patch is for SDAccel fixes and need not be used for HDK usage.
On our setup flows on the FPGA Developer AMI the scripts try installing it in /opt/Xilinx/SDx/patches path as that is the recommended way by Xilinx. That is why the Xilinx version does not show up as Vivado v2018.2_AR71715 (64-bit) when running the HDK flow.
If you are not using the SDAccel flow, you don't need to use the patch. I believe hdk_setup.sh would try installing it anyways and possibly fail in an on premise setting(I presume this is why you added the patch using the XILINX_PATH method).
We are working on a way to allow for patching for our on-premise customers where you might not have access to the Xilinx install directories, but in the meanwhile you can get around this by either adding Vivado v2018.2_AR71715 (64-bit) to the supported_vivado_versions.txt file or commenting out the setup_patches function in hdk_setup.sh as below and removing the patch from your XILINX_PATH env var:
### IN hdk_setup.sh ###
# Install any patches as required
#setup_patches <---- Comment this call out
Hope this helps!
-Deep
"I presume this is why you added the patch using the XILINX_PATH method" - this is correct, I do not have superuser access on the machine I'm using Vivado on.
Thanks for the explanation.
You most likely did the same that we did which is apply the patch manually to the .../Vivado/2018.2/scripts path instead of the .../SDx/2018.2/scripts/ path. If you apply the patch to the correct files it will not change the reported version and will not require modifying the AWS scripts.
That said it is annoying that AWS scripts require that an SDx patch be applied to a base Vivado use case.
Hey, I did not apply the patch by copying any files to the Vivado installation directory, as I have no write access to that. I applied it by setting the XILINX_PATH environment variable (this is the recommended way by Xilinx for multi-user environments) - I have no other option than that.
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