January 31, 2003

EPICS base R3.14.1: Known Problems

Known Bugs

• dbEvent.c

  A bug exists in dbEvent.c that can cause an IOC to go into an infinite loop. This can happen if a client has many undelivered monitors and cancels events. A patch is now available which fixes this problem in R3.14.1.

  To make the necessary source code changes, download the patch file from here (shift+click on that link in most browsers) and and copy it to the <base>/src/db directory. Then use the patch program to apply the change as follows:

  zeus% patch < dbEvent.patch
    Looks like a unified context diff.
  done

  Finally run gnumake at the top of the base tree.

• PCAS

  The portable CA server does not work on solaris.

To Do Posix

• Currently thread priorities are not turned on, i.e. all threads run at the same priority.

Build Rules

• A SHRLIB_SEARCH_DIRS += should be generated for everything found in configure/RELEASE

For shared library builds on solaris

• Change "SYS_SHRLIB_LIBS_8 += Crun" to "SYS_SHRLIB_LIBS_8 += Crun Cstd" in configure/os/CONFIG.Common.solaris-sparc and configure/os/CONFIG.Common.solaris-x86 and change "SYS_DLL_LIBS_solaris_8 = Crun" to "SYS_DLL_LIBS_solaris_8 = Crun Cstd" in config/CONFIG.Host.solaris and config/CONFIG.Host.solarisGnu.