Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

john sinclair <[email protected]> · Thu, 17 Dec 1998 09:53:28 -0500 (EST)

On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Ralph Lange wrote:

> > Creating directory exampleApp
> > Copying file /usr/util/epics/base/templates/makeBaseApp/top/exampleApp/Makefile -> exampleApp/Makefile
> > Not a directory Copying /usr/util/epics/base/templates/makeBaseApp/top/exampleApp/Makefile/.wind -> exampleApp/Makefile/.wind at /usr/util/epics/base/bin/sun4/makeBaseApp.pl line 249.
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> This is even stranger than I thought. 
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> Which version of perl are you using? makeBaseApp needs perl 5. If you're
> calling makeBaseApp.pl directly from the command line, the first perl in
> your PATH will be used.
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perl -V gives:

Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 4 subversion 3) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=sunos, osvers=4.1.4, archname=sun4-sunos
    uname='sunos ler014.ph 4.1.4 1 sun4m '
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    bincompat3=n useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='gcc', optimize='-O', gccversion=2.7.2.2
    cppflags='-I/usr/local/include'
    ccflags ='-I/usr/local/include'
    stdchar='unsigned char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=true
    voidflags=15, castflags=0, d_casti32=define, d_castneg=define
    intsize=4, alignbytes=8, usemymalloc=y, randbits=31
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='ld', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib /usr/ucblib
    libs=-lnsl -ldbm -ldl -lm -lc -lposix
    libc=/lib/libc.so.1.9.2, so=so
    useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
    cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-assert nodefinitions -L/usr/local/lib'

Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): 
  Built under sunos
  Compiled at Oct 23 1997 09:53:25
  @INC:
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/sun4-sunos/5.00403
    /usr/local/lib/perl5
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/sun4-sunos
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl

> Is there a file called .wind somewhere under your EPICS base tree? Could it
> be that some weird mode bits of a file called .wind cause perl's find to go
> beserk?

I get no result from the command: "find . -name .wind -print" executed
in directory above base.

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> Anyone else any idea?

John Sinclair
[email protected]
Oak Ridge National Lab
423-576-6362   423-574-1268 (fax)

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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