May 2021 - Spot

latexmk required to build spot
by Maxime Bouton 29 May '21

29 May '21

Dear spot maintainers, I am trying to compile spot v2.9.7 from source but my build errors due to latexmk not being available in the environment. From what I understand from the log, it is used in making the doc, is there a way to skip this step in the build? I built it on ubuntu (gcc (Ubuntu 9.3.0-17ubuntu1~20.04) 9.3.0) and it did not complain about latexmk, this only happened when changing to a new platform (the end goal is to cross compile it). Any help would be appreciated, Maxime I am using a linux platform with gcc: x86_64-linux-gnu-g++ (GCC) 9.1.0 Here is what I run: ./configure --prefix=${prefix}/spot-build --build=${MACHTYPE} --host=${target} --disable-python make -j${nproc} && make install Here is the partial log: ``` [15:46:03] Making all in doc [15:46:03] make[2]: Entering directory '/workspace/srcdir/jlspot/spot-2.9.7/doc' [15:46:03] Making all in tl [15:46:03] make[3]: Entering directory '/workspace/srcdir/jlspot/spot-2.9.7/doc/tl' [15:46:03] BIBINPUTS='./..' latexmk -pdf -ps- -dvi- -pvc- -e '$bibtex_use=2' -e '$pdflatex="pdflatex %O \"\\def\\SpotVersion{2.9.7}\\input{%S}\""' ./tl.tex [15:46:03] /bin/sh: latexmk: not found [15:46:03] make[3]: *** [Makefile:1399: tl.pdf] Error 127 [15:46:03] make[3]: Leaving directory '/workspace/srcdir/jlspot/spot-2.9.7/doc/tl' [15:46:03] make[2]: *** [Makefile:1319: all-recursive] Error 1 [15:46:03] make[2]: Leaving directory '/workspace/srcdir/jlspot/spot-2.9.7/doc' [15:46:03] make[1]: *** [Makefile:1341: all-recursive] Error 1 [15:46:03] make[1]: Leaving directory '/workspace/srcdir/jlspot/spot-2.9.7' ````

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[Not-really-Spot] BDD libraries
by Michaël Cadilhac 27 May '21

27 May '21

Hi there ADL & all, Apologies for the not-really-spot question, but the expertise on this list is quite unique! I'm about to embark on a new project that relies on BDD. My only experience with BDD libraries was through using Spot, so I'm familiar with BuDDy, but that's it. Starting something fresh, I'm pondering what's the best C++ BDD library available nowadays. I axed through BuDDy and refactored it so that it's template-only and encapsulated the global variables in a class (hoping for some performance boost from inlining). While I'm fairly happy with the result, I now realize that there's been some progress in the BDD landscape since 1997—crazy! This paper: https://www.tvandijk.nl/pdf/2015setta.pdf by the author of Sylvan seems to indicate that Sylvan offers good performances on a single core, and great perf on multicore. It also comes with a nice C++ interface. I guess my question is: If you had to go from scratch today, which BDD library would you use? Cheers, M.

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Walking through BDD formula in python
by Ayrat Khalimov 26 May '21

26 May '21

hi! With the aid of SPOT I am developing a counter-example guided synthesizer in python. See [1] if interested for details. My question is: I am trying to parse twa_run in python, namely, parse the labels of the each step (`spot.impl.step`). Is there a python way to walk through BDD? (The label is a simple cube expressed in BDD, and I need to convert it into my internal structure) (yes, this is rather a question about python interface for buddy) (no, that is not feature request:) if not possible, I will simply print the label and parse the string, that is not crucial) [1] The idea is - guess the model, - then model check it and get a counter-example - then encode the counter-example into the "guesser" (which uses an SMT solver) thanks, Ayrat

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