Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Timo Korhonen <[email protected]> · Mon, 20 Nov 2017 14:21:43 +0000

Hi,

During the weekend I downloaded and built the EPICS 7 tarball on my (own)
computer, KDE Neon distro, based on Ubuntu 16.04.

Compiles all fine. All new modules are there in the source tree, as
expected. All good, thanks to everybody and congratulations!

However, I had the (perhaps naïve) expectation that when I use
makeBaseApp, I would get an doc with QSRV. This was not the case.
The next try was to follow Michael's instructions from the Barcelona
meeting, to add the QSRV definitions in the Makefile. Still no luck.

After hacking a while I managed to create an IOC with QSRV, but it was not
exactly straightforward. I assume a newcomer would be confused.

I just wonder if this is the expected state? Maybe I am just missing
something obvious.

Timo

On 17/11/17 00:30, "[email protected] on behalf of Andrew
Johnson" <[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]>
wrote:

>The first pre-release of EPICS 7.0.1 has been tagged and can be
>downloaded from the EPICS website, at the usual locations:
>    http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/base/R7-0/1.php
>    https://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/download/base/index.php
>
>The documentation listed on the R7-0/1 page is incomplete and still
>somewhat sparse, but it should be possible to download and build the
>software with no special knowledge beyond that needed to build
>Base-3.16.1.
>
>Note that the first release candidate (7.0.1-rc1) will be published
>significantly sooner than in the past, most likely next Tuesday (before
>the US Thanksgiving holiday next Thursday), and will be announced to the
>whole community on the tech-talk list. Until then please use core-talk
>for feedback and technical discussions.
>
>Many thanks to everyone who has contributed towards this release, which
>incorporates both EPICS Base (3.16 plus additional features) and the V4
>C++ modules (pvData, pvAccess, normative types, etc.).
>
>- Andrew
>
>-- 
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>speech because I have nothing to say." -- Edward Snowdon

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System