No setup commands in README.md file

[mithro]

There are not any quick start instructions on how to get started with the open_pdks. It needs something like;

git clone https://github.com/RTimothyEdwards/open_pdks.git
cd open_pdks
./configure --with-sky130-source=<directory where you cloned https://github.com/google/skywater-pdk repository>
cd sky130
make tools-a

Unclear to me if the above is correct.

It is unclear to me if anything needs to be done in the google/skywater-pdk repository before using ./configure -- aka do you have to run make timing or?

[RTimothyEdwards]

It says "Instructions" and points you to the README in the "target foundry process" which would in this case be sky130.
So if you follow that and go look at sky130/README, you'll see the full set of installation instructions. Except that those are not the instructions that you, specifically, want to follow (see below).

The scattershot location of instructions are largely a result of several overhauls of the code since its inception. Cleanup will happen eventually.

The above is sort of correct; it's just that what you want out of it is the magic techfile, which is why I directed you to cd to sky130 and do "make tools-a". Normally one just does "make" from the top level, but since that presupposes that the skywater-pdk repo is installed, then it's not what you want to do to get just the techfile for using to build the skywater-pdk repo. The instructions you want to follow are atypical. Likewise, there is no need for you to have the skywater-pdk or run "make timing". You don't even need to have "--with-sky130-source=" pointing to anything relevant; it just needs to be set to something non-null to keep the make script from failing.

[RTimothyEdwards]

Fixed this, too. It will show up in github in a few hours.

[mithro]

I've yet to be able to make the instructions work....

[RTimothyEdwards]

This has been reworked several times, most recently in #127, so I'm closing this issue.