Experimental Physics and
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Benjamin Franksen <[email protected]> · Sat, 28 Feb 2015 19:14:27 +0100

On Thursday 26 February 2015 10:44:28 Andrew Johnson wrote:
> I created the 3.14.12.5-pre1 release yesterday and uploaded a tarball
> to the website. There have been a number of changes to the
> cross-build configuration files in recent days, so I would especially
> appreciate feedback on tests of linux-arm and derived targets. This
> build also supports cross-compiling for 32-bit Windows MinGW from
> Linux if you have the cross-build tools installed..
>
> The 3.14.12.5-rc1 release is slated for March 9th, and the final
> release for March 23rd assuming no major show-stoppers appear.

Hi Andrew

we have accumulated a number of small patches to the EPICS build system
over the years. I thought this would be a good opportunity to offer them
for merging with the mainline. I checked that they all (still) apply
cleanly to 3.14.12.5-pre1 (and did some cleanup, too).

1) fixed-release_perl_module_dirs.patch

RELEASE_PERL_MODULE_DIRS is generated wrongly: <TOP>_LIB is not the same
as <TOP>/lib.

2) fix_-improve-misleading-_installing-____-messages-in-rules_db.patch

This just fixes some "Creating..." messages.

3) fix_-re_defined-echo-in-configure_os_config_common_rtems.patch

We found that the RTEMS build system (we use 4.9) has its own definition
of ECHO, so we re-define ECHO after including them.

4) fix_-release_cfg_config-and-_rules-should-be-in-reverse-order.patch

RULES and CONFIG files from the cfg subdir of other modules must be
included in the opposite order in which they appear in the
configure/RELEASE file. This is because the RELEASE file lists them in
reverse dependency order. This is the correct order when creating search
paths (because in that case earlier entries win over later ones), but
not when including make file snippets (because in that case later
entries win over earlier ones).

5) extend-the-cfg-mechanism-to-rules_top.patch

Finally one patch which adds a feature and is not a bug fix: in addition
to adding RULES in a support module, this allows users to add TOP_RULES.
In case it is not evident why this is useful, please shout and I'll
explain.

Cheers
Ben
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