Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Ernest L. Williams Jr." <[email protected]> · Mon, 26 May 2003 11:20:48 -0400

Hi Steve,

I miss understood the question.

Kay Kasemir has changed our version to allow this.

I will send this to you and Janet in a separate e-mail.

Thanks,
Ernest 

On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 11:06, Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote:
> Hi Steve,
> 
> I think Janet Anderson has this fixed in R3.14.2.
> 
> I have justed completed the build for R3.14.2 on Red Hat Linux 9.0
> 
> 
> Janet, is there a patch available for R3.14.1?
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Ernest
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 11:01, Steve Hunt wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > In 3.14.1,  the script base/configure/tools/convertRelease.pl  seems to 
> > expand configuration files (like configue/RELEASE), to create files to 
> > be included in make for a particular application and architecture.   
> > Unfortunately it does not take account of any environment variables, so 
> > if you set EPICS_BASE in your environment it will be ignorred and the 
> > value from your configuration files will be taken, or the build will 
> > fail if they are not defined.
> > 
> > This is causing us a problem, as we don't want to manualy edit these 
> > files every time we build epics in a different location (we are trying 
> > to speed up, and generalize our  installation and build procedures).
> > 
> > Should this perl script be modified ? ( I can't do this as I can't even 
> > spell pearl!).
> > 
> > Thanks in advance
> > Steve Hunt
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Ernest L. Williams Jr. <[email protected]>

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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