Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> · Mon, 16 Apr 2007 14:26:03 -0500

Hi Glen,
White, Glen Russell wrote:

I have built epics base (V 3.14.8) successfully, but I get the below
error when trying to build asyn (v. 4-7) which I don't know how to
interpret. Can anyone point me at a possible problem here?

I'm pretty sure this is a line-ending problem; your cygwin is probably
set up to expect Unix line-endings (\n => 0x0a), but the file you're
giving it has DOS line-endings (\n => 0x0d, 0x0a). This probably
explains why the error message below doesn't make very much sense:
/cygdrive/c/epics-3.14.8/base/bin/win32-x86-cygwin/dbToRecordtypeH.exe -I . -I .. -I ../../dbd -I /cygdrive/c/epics-3.14.8/base/dbd ../../asyn/asynRecord/asynRecord.dbd ../O.Common/asynRecord.h

Error Last token ""dbCommon.dbd""

input line: include "dbCommon.dbd"
in: file ../../asyn/asynRecord/asynRecord.dbd line 107
db_parse returned -1
Terminal error For input file ../../asyn/asynRecord/asynRecord.dbd

There are various ways to solve it - changing cygwin to use the DOS
line-ending conventions, or change the source file to use the Unix
conventions. If you used winzip to untar the asyn distribution that
might explain how this happened, because it would have put the DOS
line-endings in.
I think we tried to fix this kind of problem in some later versions, but
I don't know that we solved all of the possible locations.
HTH,
- Andrew
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

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