vital entities missing

[wfjm]

I installed ghdl-gcc for ubuntu 20.04.
Tried to compile the vendor libraries from Vivado 2019.2 (version doesn't matter).
That fails with
      unisim_VPKG.vhd:48:10: unit "vital_timing" not found in library "ieee"
      unisim_VPKG.vhd:49:10: unit "vital_primitives" not found in library "ieee"
      unisim_VPKG.vhd:66:16: no declaration for "vitaltablesymboltype"

Reason is, that the vital_* entities are missing in the libraries.
They are definitely in the GHDL project.
I've installed it from sources and I also get
            vital_primitives-body.o
            vital_primitives.o
            vital_timing-body.o
            vital_timing.o

In this form the Ubuntu (and likely also Debian) package is useless for
any application which involves Xilinx UNISIM primitives.

Trimming the libs to a bare minimum might save a few MByte.
How cares these days. But limits usability significantly.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Markus Wagner (wagnmark)]

I have the same issue with Vivado unisim and ghdl-gcc on Ubuntu22.04.

[Markus Wagner (wagnmark)]

I think, I found the reason for excluding vital libraries: According to this comment in GHDL's Makefile.in, VITAL is not compatible with the GPL license: https://github.com/ghdl/ghdl/blob/038f55c37c93baad2b394380f1a7d34f6837798f/Makefile.in#L733
So I guess this is a no go for the Debian project.