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Mark Rivers <[email protected]> · Fri, 8 Dec 2017 20:06:12 +0000

It looks like you changed it to CALL and it is proceeding?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Johnson [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, December 08, 2017 1:55 PM
> To: Mark Rivers; Michael Davidsaver; Ralph Lange; EPICS core-talk
> Subject: Re: moving initHooks into libCom
> 
> On 12/08/2017 01:45 PM, Mark Rivers wrote:
> > I think you are missing quotes in the path name.  My batch file for 2017 has this:
> >
> > "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual
> Studio\2017\Community\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" amd64
> >
> 
> Thanks, I just fixed that but it then died in the batch file with no
> message or error. Should I be CALLing the .bat instead?
> 
> - Andrew
> 
> 
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf
> >> Of Andrew Johnson
> >> Sent: Friday, December 08, 2017 1:19 PM
> >> To: Michael Davidsaver; Ralph Lange; EPICS core-talk
> >> Subject: Re: moving initHooks into libCom
> >>
> >> On 12/08/2017 12:20 PM, Michael Davidsaver wrote:
> >>> On 12/08/2017 12:24 PM, Andrew Johnson wrote:
> >>>> Hi Michael,
> >>>>
> >>>> Assuming you're intending it to be merged *after* the 7.0.1 release then
> >>>> yes, please go ahead and work on it.
> >>>
> >>> "Before or after" is my question.  Before would let me eliminate libpvAccessIOC
> >>> in this release.  This has never been a concern for me, but was for Ralph.
> >>
> >> I would have liked to eliminate that library, but I think it's too late
> >> now. The EPICS_BASE_PVA_CORE_LIBS variable should probably exclude the
> >> pvAccessIOC library, and pva2pva could export EPICS_BASE_PVA_IOC_LIBS
> >> say, which should include both pvAccessIOC and qsrv. That change I would
> >> still accept. There might need to be an adjustment to the pvDatabase
> >> module which is now using that variable and was previously linking
> >> against pvAccessIOC, but I don't know if it actually needs it or not.
> >>
> >>>> However I would prefer that you fix the MSVC compiling issues that have
> >>>> been reported in pva2pva first, since we should really fix them *before*
> >>>> the final release which is due out on Tuesday.
> >>>
> >>> I'm fighting limited time, and internet access, this week.
> >>> Also the usual problem that I don't have access to MSVC!
> >>>
> >>> How would you like me to approach this?
> >>> I can't say that I relish spending time on appveyer config,
> >>> but if APS jenkins doesn't show the failure, then I guess
> >>> this is my only option.
> >>
> >> Mark Rivers also responded
> >>> How hard would it be to upgrade the APS Jenkins server from 2010 to 2017
> >>> Community?  I installed 2017 on my machine this week and it was pretty
> >>> quick and painless.
> >>
> >> I have less than 12 working hours left until our telecon on Tuesday
> >> morning when we'll start the final release, and I promised our IT group
> >> I would continue working on moving the APS EPICS website to a new
> >> web-server, so I'm running out of time myself.
> >>
> >> We do have MS Visual Studio 14.0 already installed on our Windows build
> >> agent so I just adjusted the APS Jenkins epics-master-windows job to use
> >> that instead of 2010 and triggered a rebuild, which seems to be running.
> >> This job does update the submodules to the git tip, but it will only
> >> check hourly and trigger automatically when the core/master branch is
> >> updated so it will be faster to email me to run another build (use my
> >> gmail if you're still working on it over the weekend).
> >>
> >>> Michael, if you have a pretty good idea how to fix it I could test
> >>> compiling on 2015 and 2017, either via a git branch or just e-mail.  So
> >>> far the problem just seems to be 1 file.
> >>
> >> It's probably worth testing those too if you can spare the time, maybe
> >> after Michael has fixed the build with 14.0 (if it fails!).
> >>
> >> Thanks guys,
> >>
> >> - Andrew
> >>
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