Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

[email protected] (Ralph Lange) · Mon, 21 Jul 1997 12:30:39 +0200 (METDST)

Hi Dave!

> 	If I have built EPICS for HPUX9.05 and have now
> 	migrated to HPUX10.2 will I need to rebuild EPICS?

No.

The cross-compiler for vxWorks is still the same binary - so there's no
cross compilation necessary.

The HPUX binaries are upward compatible - 9.0x binaries will run on all
10.x machines. Any 10.x binary will run on the same or higher version of
HPUX. We still have some 9.0x binaries in our global epics/bin/hp700
directory - no problems.

There is a slight difference: Under 9.0x the /bin/sh is *not* POSIX
conformant, under 10.x it is. (If you encounter problems with shell scripts
under 9.0x, use /bin/posix/sh instead.) As EPICS scripting has been moved
to perl, this should not bother you.

Ralph

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System