Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Ralph Lange <[email protected]> · Mon, 15 Mar 1999 17:05:53 +0100 (MET)

John Sinclair <[email protected]>:

> I do:
> 
>   makeBaseApp.pl -t example example
> 
> and it complains:
> 
>   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.

Brian McAllister <[email protected]>:

> Back in December, there was a conversation on TechTalk about makeBaseApp
> failing because it tried to copy a non-existent file.  In that case, the
> file was .../Makefile/.wind.  I am having exactly the same problem, except
> that in my case the file is .../Makefile/.cshrc.

John Sinclair again:

> All appears well until dbLoadDatabase which fails and gives the
> following console message:
> 
>   Error "syntax error"  Last token ".bashrc"
>   input line: .bashrc
>      in: file /usr/users/sinclx86/hribfx86/dbd/exampleApp.dbd line 1
> 
>   db_parse returned -1

The most obvious common thing is the Solaris OS.

Could these strange things be due to a Solaris bug or misconfiguration that
somehow scrambles up processes that try to read files?

Ralph

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System