Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> · Tue, 19 Dec 2006 11:37:44 -0600

Hi Kazuro,

Kazuro FURUKAWA wrote:

I've updated my (dirty) patch for Tru64unix at
  <URL:http://www-linac.kek.jp/jk/osf/base-3.14.9-pre2-osf-alpha.patch>

Janet is committing most of these changes (slightly modified) to CVS,

and also removing the src/libCom/osi/os/alpha directory which your

README says you don't use any more.

I have asked Jeff Hill to comment on the change you're making to the

src/ca/comBuf.h file - I don't see why this should be necessary if it's

not needed on other architectures. He hasn't responded yet though, and

we won't commit that change without his agreement.

Its test results are not optimal yet as in

 <URL:http://www-linac.kek.jp/jk/osf/base-3.14.9-pre2-test-osf.txt>

But I believe they are minor.

You can manually run the src/libCom/test/O.osf-alpha/epicsStdioTest and

src/libCom/test/O.osf-alpha/epicsTimerTest programs to see what the

errors are actually reporting. The epicsStdioTest failures imply that

your system's vsnprintf() routine doesn't return the correct value. You

can fix this by creating a src/libCom/osi/os/osf/osdStdio.c file (copy

and modify the posix version) to correct the OS error.

To me comBuf.h seems to be OK, but ... If you have any idea to try,

please let me know. But again, essentially I don't need R3.14.9 on

HP-UX at KEKB and Linac. So please don't be bothered too much.

That seems like a very strange error message.

By the way, to my understanding you kindly picked up Artem's FreeBSD

configuration. Thank you very much.

We're happy to include new architectures in the official release,

although we can't always test them ourselves so we will have to rely on

the donor doing the testing for us.

I've also asked him to build a sort of the unit-test environment for

EPICS. And I realized that you already built it using Perl's Test

environment. Thanks for that. He may restart the process based on

your efforts. I think such tools may enhance the reliability of

EPICS installations very much.

I hope he/you will adopt the testing setup that we've included. I'm

looking to expand the testing in Base by incorporating many of the tests

from Marty Kraimer's mrkSoftTest application where these can be easily

automated. Unfortunately automatically running tests on vxWorks and

RTEMS may be impossible to do, but any automation of this sort can only

increase the amount of testing that gets done, thus improving the

quality of EPICS Base releases.

- Andrew
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