Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Benjamin Franksen <[email protected]> · Sun, 9 Nov 2003 01:22:57 +0100

On Saturday 08 November 2003 01:55, Andrew Johnson wrote:
> Don't use environment variables.  Your configure/RELEASE file can contain
> include statements, so can pull in settings from files elsewhere.  I
> suggest that if you don't like having to set up all your pointers to the
> 'right' versions in every application, that you have another file
> containing SUPPORT=/path/to/something
> 	EPICS_DIR=/path/to/base
> 	SYMB=$(SUPPORT)/symb
> 	VXSTATS=$(SUPPORT)/vxStats

Hi Andrew

Including other makefiles doesn't work because convertRelease.pl just looks at 
definitions (of the form NAME=VALUE), not at everything (gnu-)make 
understands (include, etc...).

(I agree that using environment variables is not such a good idea.)

Ben

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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