Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Benjamin Franksen <[email protected]> · Tue, 21 Dec 2004 13:16:10 +0100

I'm in the early stages of porting a 3.13 application to 3.14 and got 
stuck almost immediately.

Our typical application creates X.db using X.substitutions and template 
files a.template and b.template. X.substitutions looks like this

file a.template {
  { NAME="a1" }
  { NAME="a2" }
}
file b.template {
  { NAME="b1" }
  { NAME="b2" }
  { NAME="b3" }
}

In my old (3.13) Makefile.Host I have

USES_TEMPLATE = a.template b.template
DB = X.db

which creates X.db by calling (more or less)

msi -S X.substitutions > X.db

That is, msi is used as substitution for host side dbLoadTemplate.

What definitions do I need in my Makefile to make this work in 3.14? 
Make complains about a missing "../X.template".

I read chapter 4 of the ADG but there is no clue to what I should do 
here. The doc seems to suggest that expanding substitutions files in 
the dbLoadTemplate style is no longer supported because it seems that 
*one* template file is required for each substitution file and a subst 
files like the above obviously needs not one but many different 
template files.

Almost all of our applications use above style to expand db on the host 
side and most of the substitutions files are generated by scripts from 
a relational Database.

I am quite astonished that I seem to be the first one stumbling over 
this. Any suggestion on how to proceed would be greatly appreciated.

Ben

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System