Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Heinz Junkes <[email protected]> · Mon, 20 Nov 2017 16:28:35 +0100

The oddness seems to be related with OS X.

On Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS and Debian 9 tar extracting works as expected.

But on High Sierra we can’t extract the tar file.

extracting the original tar.gz file on Ubuntu or Debian 
… then tar it on these systems 
-> can be extracted on OS X …

On linux: 

tar xvzf base-7.0.1-pre1.tar.gz 
tar cvzf base.tgz base-7.0.1-pre1

base.tgz can be extracted on OS-X

Heinz

> On 20. Nov 2017, at 16:16, Timo Korhonen <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On 20/11/17 16:03, "Michael Davidsaver" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On 11/20/2017 08:21 AM, Timo Korhonen wrote:
>>> 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!
>> 
>> I'm guessing that the oddness that Andrew and Heinz see has something to
>> do with the version of 'tar' involved (Debian 9 has tar 1.29).
> 
> I did not notice any oddness.
> 
> Unrelated to this, I had an old RELEASE.local around in a directory above
> the base and scratched my head for a while why make in the base-7
> directory picked up the wrong version...embarrassing to tell but was easy
> to solve.
> 
> 
>> 
>>> 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.
>> 
>> What problems did you encounter?  I've been working on documentation,
>> and user feedback is the best (and maybe only) way to make this useful.
>> 
>> https://github.com/epics-base/pva2pva/blob/master/documentation/mainpage.h
> 
> I try to repeat what I did and this time carefully note down all issues
> that I encounter. During last weekend was just a quick exercise, I had a
> bunch of other things to do at home so I was not very meticulous and just
> wanted quick results.
> 
> Timo
> 

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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