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14 years ago

Setting INCREMENTAL_COMPILATION to "OFF" is no longer supported

Hi,

I have ported an old design which was originally compiled using Quartus II 5.1, to Quartus II 11.1 SP1.

Analysis, Synthesis and P&R is now working OK, except for one Critical Warning which I can't get rid of:

critical warning (138069): setting incremental_compilation to "off" is no longer supported. assignment is ignored. to disable partitions, set the ignore_partitions global assignment to "on" instead.

I am not familiar with Tcl and do all assignments using the GUI.

I ticked the box "ignore partitions assignments during compilation" in the Incremental Compilation part of assignments, but have found no way of suppressing that critical warning.

I have searched for any occurence of "INCREMENTAL_COMPILATION" in files within the project directory (and its subdirectories), but no success.

Is there some global assignment elsewhere that sets INCREMENTAL_COMPILATION to "OFF"?

Thanks for your help,

Alex

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    14 years ago

    Hi.

    All project assignments should be in <project_name>.qsf file (more specifically in <revision_name>.qsf, but if it's your only revision then the names should match). You can search for incremental compilation assignment there.
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    14 years ago

    if you haven't defined any partitions, shouldn't the feature essentially be turned off?

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    14 years ago

    I agree that the feature should be off since there are no partitions in my design.

    But I was essentially wondering why I get that critical warning, and how to get rid of it.

    I have looked for an "INCREMENTAL_COMPILATION" entry in every .q?f file in the project directory (xxProjectxx.qpf, xxRevisionNamexx.qsf, assignment_defaults.qdf, xxRevisionNamexx_assignment_defaults.qdf): nothing.

    Actually, I get that "critical warning (138069): setting incremental_compilation to "off" is no longer supported. assignment is ignored. to disable partitions, set the ignore_partitions global assignment to "on" instead." message as soon as I open the project.

    Help!

    Alex
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    14 years ago

    ah ok i understand your problem a bit more

    can you grep through the source files as well? it's possible to embed Quartus settings in HDL
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    14 years ago

    I grepped for INCREMENTAL_COMPILATION through every files in the project directory (and its sub-directories), it's not there :cry:.

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    14 years ago

    Hi again,

    My problem seems to be sorted, after numerous fiddling. Unfortunately I don't know what exactly made the Critical Warning go away.

    At some stage I thought it was caused by an archived project (xxProjectxx.qar, which contained some INCREMENTAL_COMPILATION assignment) that had inadvertently ended up in a directory declared as project library. But to try and confirm it was caused by that file, I put it back in the library directory: the Critical Warning did not come back.

    Anyway, it seems to be sorted. Thank you for your help,

    Alex
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    14 years ago

    I had the same problem migrating from Quartus 7.2 to 11.1.

    Resolution was to remove INCREMENTAL_COMPILATION assignment in the <project_name>_assignment_defaults.qdf file, which was imported from my old design. It appears that this assignment is no longer be set in the .qdf files.

    Larry