Python package clash

[shareefj]

I'm trying to run the riscof tests in verif/ but there seems to be a pip dependency issue between what fusesoc requires and the version required for riscof.

If I have setup a venv and installed fusesoc, running pip install riscof results in the following error:

ERROR: pip's dependency resolver does not currently take into account all the packages that are installed. This behaviour is the source of the following dependency conflicts.
fusesoc 2.3 requires pyyaml>=6.0, but you have pyyaml 5.2 which is incompatible.
jsonschema2md 1.1.0 requires PyYAML<7.0.0,>=6.0.0, but you have pyyaml 5.2 which is incompatible.

However, if I add all dependencies to a single requierments.txt, then it seems to install with no issues. I am very far from a pip expert so thought I'd just report this and see if anyone had any pointers. Is pip able to resolve dependency clashes if everything is installed at once?

Cheers.

[olofk]

Yes. I actually have this problem myself. It's the riscv-config package (which is a dependency of riscof) which has a strict dependency on pyyaml 5.2. I'm actually using a modified local version of that package to get around the problem (clone the repo https://github.com/riscv-software-src/riscv-config, change setup.py to say pyyaml>=5.2 instead of pyyaml==5.2, and then do a "development install" by running pip install --user -e . from the riscv-config repo).

I also had to do a similar hack for riscv_isac to allow for newer versions of pyelftools in the requirements.txt there.

Generally, I do wonder if the whole riscof framework is alive at all tbh. Not that I'm the most active maintainer myself, but I haven't seen any activity for ages in the riscof or riscv-config repos

[shareefj]

Yeah, having just gone through the pain of setting it up on a core, the documentation is well out of date and there are so many little bugs and issues it feels like it should be scrapped. I've just emailed Neel who is a repo owner of the arch tests to check.

But anyway, I think you can avoid this issue by adding all your Python dependencies to a single requirements.txt file and update your documentation. At least that worked for me in my limited testing.