Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Ernest L. Williams Jr." <[email protected]> · Thu, 01 Sep 2005 09:37:13 -0400

On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 14:29 +0100, Denison, PN (Peter) wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ernest L. Williams Jr. [mailto:[email protected]] 
> > Subject: Re: 3.14 build system doesn't cope with hyphens in IOC names
> > 
> > We use hyphens in our IOC names under EPICS R3.14.7.
> > I don't remember making any modifications to support this.
> > 
> > For example,
> > 
> > ==============================================================
> > 
> > [williams@lion test]$ makeBaseApp.pl -t example example 
> > [williams@lion test]$ makeBaseApp.pl -i -t example my-new-ioc 
> > The following target architectures are available in base:
> >     vxWorks-mv2100_v6
> >     vxWorks-mv5100_v6
> >     vxWorks-ppc603_T2-2
> >     vxWorks-ppc603_long
> >     vxWorks-ppc603
> >     linux-x86
> >     vxWorks-ppc604_T2-2
> > What architecture do you want to use? vxWorks-ppc603 
> > [williams@lion test]$ ls configure/  exampleApp/  iocBoot/  Makefile 
> > [williams@lion test]$ ls  iocBoot/ iocmy-new-ioc/  Makefile
> nfsCommands 
> > ==============================================================
> > 
> > Works perfect.
> 
> Sorry - I wasn't clear enough in my original explanation of the problem.
> It is in the substitution of "APPNAME" that problems occur with hyphens.
> In your example, the appname was "example", which doesn't contain
> hyphens (so no problem) 

Still works for me:
==============================================================================
[williams@lion test]$ makeBaseApp.pl -t example my-example
[williams@lion test]$ ls
configure/  Makefile  my-exampleApp/
[williams@lion test]$ makeBaseApp.pl -i -t example my-example
The following target architectures are available in base:
    vxWorks-mv2100_v6
    vxWorks-mv5100_v6
    vxWorks-ppc603_T2-2
    vxWorks-ppc603_long
    vxWorks-ppc603
    linux-x86
    vxWorks-ppc604_T2-2
What architecture do you want to use? vxWorks-ppc603
[williams@lion test]$ ls -l
total 16
drwxrwxr-x  2 williams williams 4096 Sep  1 09:32 configure/
drwxrwxr-x  3 williams williams 4096 Sep  1 09:33 iocBoot/
-rw-rw-r--  1 williams williams  391 Sep  1 09:32 Makefile
drwxrwxr-x  4 williams williams 4096 Sep  1 09:32 my-exampleApp/
[williams@lion test]$ ls iocBoot/
iocmy-example/  Makefile  nfsCommands
==============================================================================

> and you'd need to modify the st.cmd file by hand
> to change to example_registerRecordDeviceDriver from
> my-new-ioc_registerRecordDeviceDriver, also avoiding the problem.
==========================================================
Now modifying the st.cmd file has always been an issue with us.
However, given that one could have many Apps associated with one IOC it
was a good choice to choose the IOC name as the prefix.

Maybe, the script could ask what should be your main App?
=====================================================================

> 
> If you use the same name for the app and the ioc, both with a hyphen in,
> you'll see the problem.
> 
> Peter Denison, Senior Software Engineer
> Diamond Light Source Ltd., Diamond House, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, OX11
> 0DE
> Tel: +44 1235 778511

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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