A problem running Vivado 2016.4 on Ubuntu 16.04

Symptoms

Running TCL script of a Vivado 2016.4 project on Ubuntu 16.04 (.6) LTS emits this error. It looks like a bug in Vivado 2016.4 which is triggered while running on Ubuntu. There are possible solutions. My solution doesn’t look like the best one but it works.

Solution

Open bin/loader file located at Vivado installation directory, for example ... Vivado/2016.4/bin/loader. Find the following code around line 420.

OS=$(awk '/DISTRIB_ID=/' /etc/*-release | sed 's/DISTRIB_ID=//' | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')

Comment the line and add a one line command as follows.

#OS=$(awk '/DISTRIB_ID=/' /etc/*-release | sed 's/DISTRIB_ID=//' | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')
OS="ubuntu"

By doing this we are assigning variable OS directly. If you execute the problematic line at shell, you will get ubuntu as expected. However AFAIK awk command executed at bin/loader script is different than the command executed at command line due to include order of the script.

This solution works but the solution given there may be a better solution.

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