Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> · Fri, 14 Nov 2003 16:08:10 -0600

Jeff Hill wrote:

but there is a problem when I built  an example. My steps are:
1. perl makeBaseApp.pl -t example example
2. perl makeBaseApp.pl -i -t example example
3. make

I am less knowledgeable about makeBaseApp.pl than the authors so I am hoping
that they have already contacted you about this. When I run makeBaseApp.pl
with the win32-x86 build it seems to work correctly.

There is an option that you can give makeBaseApp if it can't find the path
to Base, but that's not where the reported error message occurred:
> Can't find configure/RELEASE file at
/jk/epics/base-3.14.4/configure/tools/convertRelease.pl line 79.

> make[1]: *** [checkRelease] Error 2

> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/KEK J-PARC Group/iocs/configure'

> make: *** [configure.install] Error 2
It looks to me that the convertRelease.pl file doesn't like the spaces in
your pathname '/home/KEK J-PARC Group/iocs/configure'. I can quite
believe that this would cause other problems throughout the EPICS build
system, so I suggest that you need to rename your 'KEK J-PARC Group'
directory to something without spaces in it. Many Unix tools don't do the
right thing when files or directory names contain spaces, and I don't
think it's feasible to try and fix this.
- Andrew
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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