Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> · Wed, 21 Dec 2005 09:15:01 -0600

Ralph Lange wrote:

As long as you have both styles of applications in your extensions tree,
you will have to have both configuration directories: .../config for
your 3.13 style apps and .../configure for your 3.14 style apps. Note
that all applications will be compiled against 3.14 - you don't have to
install a 3.13 base! - but in the extensions tree both configuration
directories have to be present to use the compatibility mode. Install
both tars (extensionsConfig_20040406.tar.gz and
extensionsConfigure_20040406.tar.gz) into your extension tree to make it
work for both 3.13 and 3.14 style applications.

As an additional note bear in mind that to use the compatibility stuff
with a 3.14.x version of base you have to configure the base/config
directory (CONFIG_SITE, RELEASE, possibly some other files) in the same
way that the base/configure directory is set up - you won't have had to
do that before now, so you probably haven't done it yet.
- Andrew
PS: If you do decide you want to try converting an application to the
3.14 build system, it's a good idea to mail the maintainer or tech-talk
first, they may have already done most of the work but not published it
yet. You can also check the CVS repository browser or the nightly
snapshot to see if anything has been done towards the conversion, if the
extension is one that is kept in our repository.

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* * Matt Santos / / For a Brighter America * *

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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