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Subject: Re: EPICS base 3.15.0.2
From: Andrew Johnson <[email protected]>
To: "Heesterman, Peter J" <[email protected]>
Cc: EPICS core-talk <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 17:38:50 -0500
Hi Peter,

On 10/29/2014 12:00 PM, Heesterman, Peter J wrote:
> 1. I was unable to makefile build from scratch, with either release or
> debug build (make clean uninstall, make).
> 
>     See attached (the debug build fails sooner than the release build).
> 
>     This was for a fairly trivial reason, files which exist in the
> download (e.g. flex.skel.static) hadn’t been copied into the relevant
> install directory.

That appears to be a dependency issue, the flex.skel.static target needs
to have been installed before we attempt to run the e_flex executable
that uses it. I haven't come across this not working before, but it's
not obvious that there is an explicit dependency anywhere so we probably
need one. Please try applying the attached patch which I think should
fix that specific problem, I'll commit the change if it works for you.
Were there any other places you came across like that with other files
being used before they had been installed?

>     My VS project(s) are able to build all the code without problem. In
> order to complete the release makefile build from scratch, I was able to:
> 
> make clean uninstall, VS build for _DEBUG which copies the files, make.

Dependency issues are pretty fickle, they can appear and disappear
seemingly at random. Parallel builds (make -j) are good for picking them
up, but the number of CPUs you have and the speed of your disk can both
be major factors in when they appear.

> 2. You have removed a definition of epicsBoolean in epicsTypes.h.
> 
>     Presumably, you wish to deprecate use of this type; reasonable given
> that bool exists in the C99 standard and is presumably implemented on
> all platforms.
> 
>     But epicsBoolean is used in some modules, notably Asyn.

Ok, I have added it back to epicsTypes.h again.  We don't actually have
C99 support available on all our target OSs, but yes I would prefer to
get rid of epicsBoolean, epicsTrue and epicsFalse which are really not
necessary IMHO.

> 3. Another issue: you had removed include "menuGlobal.dbd" from base.dbd.
> 
> It’s needed. For example, I was seeking to run testAsynPortDriver, which
> had errors (see attached).

The menuGlobal.dbd file is now generated by the src/ioc/db/Makefile from
the list of files added to the menuGlobal_DBD variable in that file. It
should be built inside the src/ioc/db/O.Common directory of Base and
installed from there.

Your TestAsynPortDriver.log file shows that you're running the program
in the wrong place; you need to cd to the iocBoot/ioctestAsynPortDriver
directory first since the commands in the st.cmd file use relative paths
that assume that's where it starts from.


> As a separate issue, the string of the error line:
> 
> Error: syntax error
>     at or before "" in file "../../dbd/testAsynPortDriver.dbd" line 234
> 
> isn’t correctly terminated.
> It looks OK in a release build, but in a debug build it’s padded with
> gibberish.

Can you send me an example of the gibberish in context, I can't
replicate that issue here or see where it might be coming from.

Thanks,

- Andrew

-- 
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=== modified file 'src/libCom/flex/Makefile'
--- src/libCom/flex/Makefile	2011-09-15 19:05:05 +0000
+++ src/libCom/flex/Makefile	2014-10-30 20:35:41 +0000
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 
 parse_YACCOPT = -l -d
 
-SKELETON_FILE = include/flex.skel.static
+SKELETON_FILE = flex.skel.static
 
 parse_CPPFLAGS = -DDEFAULT_SKELETON_FILE=$(SKELETON_FILE)
 

=== modified file 'src/libCom/flex/RULES'
--- src/libCom/flex/RULES	2012-07-18 20:35:32 +0000
+++ src/libCom/flex/RULES	2014-10-30 20:27:50 +0000
@@ -10,4 +10,4 @@
 # This is a Makefile fragment, see src/libCom/Makefile.
 
 # Ensure that the lexer is built before it is needed
-parse.c: $(TOOLS)/antelope$(HOSTEXE)
+parse.c: $(TOOLS)/antelope$(HOSTEXE) $(INSTALL_INCLUDE)/$(SKELETON_FILE)


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