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Command-line check for available licenses

Altera_Forum
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‎12-14-2011 06:52 PM
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I want to block fitter until there is an available license, otherwise the fitter fails. 

 

How do I check for available floating licenses in general when I run Quartus tools in command line. 

 

There is a way to do it in GUI. In Tools->"License Setup Page" there is a "Wait for floating license" checkbox. However, this setting doesn't seem to be part of the project file.  

 

Thanks, 

Evgeni
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Altera_Forum
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‎12-14-2011 10:12 PM
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lmutil lmstat -a -c port@server will let you see what the license server is up to

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‎12-14-2011 10:13 PM
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and that setting is not per project so its probably in: 

 

~/.altera.quartus/quartus2.ini 

 

though i doubt you need to tinker with it
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‎12-14-2011 11:11 PM
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I certainly don't want to write a script to parse all the output of "lmutil lmstat -a -c port@server", and that's probably not what Quartus GUI is doing either. 

 

~/.altera.quartus/quartus2.ini contains "WAIT_FOR_LICENSE" setting. That's exactly what I needed to change (WAIT_FOR_LICENSE = on), and that seemed to solve the problem. 

 

Thanks for the answer, 

Evgeni
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