Relaxed rules when using cocotb runners

[cameronweston]

With the release of cocotb 1.9.0 I've been testing out nvc and have been very happy with it so far. When compiling some legacy code that I'm using, I get an error that a shared variable needs to be protected. It then suggests to use the --relaxed option to downgrade this to a warning. I tried to do this but the build step in the cocotb runner places build args before the -a option when executing.

Does anyone know if there is a way to use relaxed rules with cocotb? Or is this an issue that needs to be brought up in the cocotb project?

[nickg]

Are you using the Python or Makefile runner? For the Makefile runner I think you can just add it to COMPILE_ARGS but the Python runner does indeed only allow customisation through build_args which goes before the -a command (it sets the "global" options). Probably best to discuss this with the cocotb folks. @ktbarrett

[cameronweston]

I’ve been using python runners. Okay I’ll open an issue with them. Thanks!

[nickg]

If all your code is 93 compatible adding --std=1993 to the build args may also work.

[cameronweston]

Unfortunately I'm using 2008 features in my newer code it's just this legacy stuff I'm stuck with.