Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Redman, Russell O." <[email protected]> · Thu, 8 Mar 2001 15:24:25 -0800

Hi Nick,
Since I am now in the process of rebuilding my EPICS system to more closely
follow the JAC system, I have also encountered this problem.  Even with this
patch, however, the build still misses some CONFIG files that I think should
be present, and copies others that I am pretty sure should not be in
$(INSTALL_LOCATION_BASE)/config.  Specifically,
$(INSTALL_LOCATION_BASE)/config is missing
	CONFIG
	CONFIG_SITE.Host.WIN32
but unnecessarily includes
	CONFIG_SITE.Host.Borland
	CONFIG_SITE.Host.hp700
	CONFIG_SITE.Host.solaris

	CONFIG_SITE.Vx.Linux
	CONFIG_SITE.Vx.Linux.mv167
	CONFIG_SITE.Vx.Linux.ppc603
	CONFIG_SITE.Vx.ppc604

	CONFIG_SITE_ENV~
	CONFIG_SITE~

I think CONFIG is just missing from the list of files to be copied.  It
looks like the logic for installing the CONFIG_SITE.* files is backwards so
it installs the files we do not need and leaves the one(s) we do need. The
CONFIG_SITE_ENV~ and CONFIG_SITE~ are just backup copies of files that had
been edited; probably harmless but the rules should have filtered them out.

I do not have time right now to chase through RULES.Host to figure out what
went wrong, so I am going to copy the missing files by hand.
Cheers,
Russell O. Redman

-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Rees [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 11:17 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: R3.13.4 Build

I must be the only person that does this but....

When building EPICS I keep the installation tree and the source code tree
separate. For R3.13.4 I did this by redefining INSTALL_LOCATION_BASE in
CONFIG_SITE to be the install location I wanted.

The problem was that there is a bug when installing the configuration
files because of all the .PHONY definitions in CONFIG_BASE. I believe
these are there to speed up the build, but they also mean that a number of
the configuration files do not get installed.

I suggest either:

1. Removing the .PHONY declarations or
2. putting them in an ifndef MAKE_CONFIG_DIR block, and only defining
   MAKE_CONFIG_DIR in the Makefile.Host in the config directory.

I did the latter.

Nick Rees

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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

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