Liberty-Parser version 0.04
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Libery::Parser is indeed a Perl wrapper for Synopsys Liberty Parse Open Source project.


INSTALLATION
============

1. Please download liberty_parse-2.5e.tar.gz and gen-liberty.so.tar.gz from
http://code.google.com/p/liberty-parser/downloads/list

2.  un-tar the tarball
% tar zxvf liberty_parse-2.5e.tar.gz
% tar zxvf gen-liberty.so.tar.gz

3. Move directory gen-liberty.so to liberty_parse-2.5 directory.
% mv gen-liberty.so liberty_parse-2.5

4. Detect your system environment and compile the liberty_parse-2.5
% cd liberty_parse-2.5
% ./configure
% make

5. Compile and link the liberty.so
% cd gen-liberty.so
% make
Then you should get file liberty.so.
Put the liberty.so at the somewhere Perl can find it through LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

6. Follow formal perl module installation steps to install Libery::Parser module
   % perl Makefile.PL 
   or if you want to install the module to personal directory:
   % perl Makefile.PL  LIB=/path/to/what/you/like

   % make
   % make test
   % make install

You can test if it work by performing the supplied demo tools liberty-info.pl
% liberty-info.pl slow.lib
To install this module type the following:

DEPENDENCIES
============

This module requires liberty_parse from below Synopsys Open Liberty Project page:
http://www.opensourceliberty.org/resources_ccs.html
The suggested version is liberty_parse-2.5e.tar.gz.


COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE
======================
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.5 or,
at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.