Xilinx Design Suite 13.4 on Ubuntu

Oh hai!

You're probably here because you're having some trouble installing the Xilinx ISE Design Suite v13.4 on Ubuntu 11.04. Aren't blog post titles great?

Well, here's the problem I was having after I successfully installed it as root:

$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/firefox-11.0 # this was a hack to find the real error
$ source /opt/Xilinx/13.4/ISE_DS/settings32.sh
. /opt/Xilinx/13.4/ISE_DS/EDK/.settings32.sh /opt/Xilinx/13.4/ISE_DS/EDK
. /opt/Xilinx/13.4/ISE_DS/ISE/.settings32.sh /opt/Xilinx/13.4/ISE_DS/ISE
. /opt/Xilinx/13.4/ISE_DS/PlanAhead/.settings32.sh /opt/Xilinx/13.4/ISE_DS/PlanAhead
. /opt/Xilinx/13.4/ISE_DS/SysGen/.settings32.sh /opt/Xilinx/13.4/ISE_DS/SysGen
. /opt/Xilinx/13.4/ISE_DS/common/.settings32.sh /opt/Xilinx/13.4/ISE_DS/common
$ ise
XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/lib/firefox-11.0/libxpcom.so:
/opt/Xilinx/13.4/ISE_DS/ISE//lib/lin/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.9' not found (required by /usr/lib/firefox-11.0/libxul.so)
Couldn't load XPCOM.
[ errors about not finding library ieee ]

Turns out it ships with libstdc++ v. 6.0.8. Ubuntu 11.04 is currently at v. 6.0.14. To solve this library version conflict, simply put '/opt/Xilinx/13.4/ISE_DS/ISE/lib/lin/libstdc++*' somewhere safe and replace them with symlinks to `/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6` and it should come up just fine!