Hi Andrew,
On 29/11/17 01:05, "[email protected] on behalf of Andrew
Johnson" <[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]>
wrote:
>Hi Timo,
>
>On 11/28/2017 10:46 AM, Timo Korhonen wrote:
>> Referring to Dirk's request earlier in this chain:
>>
>> So it would be nice to have an option in one of the CONFIG files to
>> declare that a specific architecture should build EPICS 7 without PVA
>> support.
>>
>>
>> If I understand the intention right, he would like to be able to build
>>the
>> EPICS 7 base for many architectures but so that not all of them are
>> required to support PVA.
>>
>> I think that is a legitimate request: this way he can keep up with the
>> other updates in the base and does not have to abandon (at least
>> immediately) those architectures that are not able to support PVA.
>>
>> I think this could make the adoption of EPICS 7 easier not only for Dirk
>> but for other sites, too. The change does not look impossible to me.
>
>I agree that this is worthwhile goal, but I'm not sure how easy it will
>be to implement at this stage. The complication is that GNUmake descends
>through the tree just once, and it's not until it gets to the bottom
>Makefiles that it decides which target architectures to compile the code
>for. I don't want to have to edit every Makefile and put a conditional
>test in them, but I might be able to do something in the modules' own
>configure/CONFIG files.
>
>I can't promise anything for the -rc1, but I will try to implement
>something for the final release if I can do so cleanly.
Yes, on the bus back home from work I started to think and realised that
this is probably not as straightforward as I first thought. But it would
be a good thing to achieve. Thanks for considering it.
Timo
>
>- Andrew
>
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