The ACT language and core tools

This is the implementation of the ACT hardware description language, and some of the core tools. (ACT = asynchronous circuit/compiler tools)

System requirements:

The system must have libedit installed. For the yum package manager, the package is called libedit-devel; for apt-get, it is libeditline-dev. Some systems have both packages. In that case please use libedit, not libeditline.
The system should have zlib installed
The system should have the macro pre-processing package m4 installed

Create a directory where you'd like the tools to be installed. Example common locations on Unix-like machines include /usr/local/cad, /opt/cad, /opt/async. You can also install them in any other directory (e.g. $HOME/async)
Set the environment variable ACT_HOME to point to the install directory.
Set the environment variable VLSI_TOOLS_SRC to the root of the source tree (i.e. the /path/to/act).
From the $VLSI_TOOLS_SRC directory, run ./configure $ACT_HOME
Run ./build

If there is an issue building the software and you want to do a clean build, use "make realclean"

Once you've built the tools, run "make install" to install the files, and "make runtest" to run through a set of test cases.

More detailed documentation is available here: http://avlsi.csl.yale.edu/act/

Some more installation instructions are available here: http://avlsi.csl.yale.edu/act/doku.php?id=install