Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Kay-Uwe Kasemir <[email protected]> · Thu, 13 Feb 2003 08:45:59 -0700

Hello:

So far the ChannelArchiver has not been ported to EPICS R3.14,
so you'll have to use 3.13.x.

-Kay

At 23:31 2/12/2003, Susanna Jacobson wrote:
>Hello Kay, everyone,
>
>First the questions:
>        1.  What is the latest version of EPICS base against which
>                anyone has built a working sparc-solaris Channel Archiver?
>        2.  Has anyone built a working Channel Archiver with Sun workshop?
>
>Here's why I'm asking:
>
>I'm working on a sparc-solaris host.  I have built EPICS base R3.14.1
>using Sun workshop 6.1 (C++ 5.2).
>
>I started to build the Channel Archiver, but the Tools compilation
>failed because it was looking for osiTime.h.  So I'm up against the
>osi-to-epics prefix change of R3.14.
>
>This leads to my first question.  At this point, I'm wondering whether
>I'll have the Channel Archiver running sooner if I build it against an
>R3.13.x instead of trying to patch the Tools code.  Any guidance?
>
>The Channel Archiver documentation doesn't mention Sun workshop as a
>successful build environment, hence my second question.  I'm asking
>because we have an easier time building EPICS base with Sun workshop
>tools than our GNU tools.  However, my goal here is to get a Channel
>Archiver working on Solaris.  So if I must build base and Channel
>Archiver the same way, I need to know now whether I must first build
>base using GNU.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Susanna
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