We have a PDK_ROOT variable set in .bashrc

export PDK_ROOT=/home/sscspico/miniconda3/share/pdk/

Files contains hardcoded paths which makes it difficult...for anyone not using docker...it will be helpful if you can change it to use a PDK_ROOT variable https://github.com/idea-fasoc/OpenFASOC/blob/main/openfasoc/generators/glayout/glayout/flow/pdk/sky130_mapped/sky130_mapped.py Original Hardcoded :

pdk_root = Path('/usr/bin/miniconda3/share/pdk/')

My Change:

pdk_root = Path('$PDK_ROOT')

and it works... able to set things up without docker in a friend's pc... Please let me know the correct changes...so that we won't face any issue later on pushing code to the repo... @Sakib Pathen @Chetanya Goyal

This is a good suggestion

Great! Can you send a PR? @Chetanya Goyal @Sakib Pathen fyi

I don't think this is a good idea from a user perspective. Someone who doesn't know about exporting environment variables might have trouble exporting pdk root if they used docker. It you would like to PR, you can try and implement a simple if condition is the file you sent which checks both locations

@Chetanya Goyal

PDK_ROOT

is a variable which is also used by other open source tools...xschem is one I know of https://xschem.sourceforge.io/stefan/xschem_man/tutorial_xschem_sky130.html#:~:text=PDK_ROOT%20and%20PDK%20environment%20variables I can see that

PDK_ROOT

has also been created in docker installation...

root@c4f43b781ddd:~# $PDK_ROOT
bash: /usr/bin/miniconda3/share/pdk/: Is a directory