spectre wrapper in ocean

Hi,

I need to run spectre through a wrapper in ocean. In other words, I need to do something like:


envSetVal("spectre.envOpts" "simExecName" 'string "mySpectreWrapper spectre")
simulator('spectre)
.....
....
....

run()

By default spectre is run with +inter which starts MPS, and the spectre process is started by my wrapper (is runSimulation started in background?). The simulation never quits, I guess because it is waiting for some MPS commands. The obvious workaround

envSetVal( "spectre.envOpts"     "userCmdLineOption" 'string  " -inter")

won't work either. The job runs and finishes correctly. However, ocean then gives me the following error message:

Cannot start up spectre.
          The directory you specified does not contain valid PSF
          results. Please check the line for typographical errors or
          look in the directory for a logFile and PSF result files.

I guess that this is somehow connected to the fact that runObjFile is not created in the psf directory.

 Any ideas?

Thanks,
Stefano
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