Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> · Mon, 5 Dec 2011 12:42:29 -0600

Hi Pavel,

On 2011-12-05 Pavel Masloff wrote:
> 
> D:\>softIoc -h
> Usage: softIoc [-D softIoc.dbd] [-h] [-S] [-a ascf]
>         [-m macro=value,macro2=value2] [-d file.db]
>         [-x prefix] [st.cmd]
> Compiled-in path to softIoc.dbd is:
>         'D:\baseR3.14.12.1\new'/dbd/softIoc.dbd

Forget my last message, the quotes are coming from this Makefile rule:

epicsInstallDir.h:
	$(ECHO) "FINAL_LOCATION=$(FINAL_LOCATION)"
	$(PERL) ../makeInstallDir.pl '$(FINAL_LOCATION)' > $@

On Unix the shell strips out those single quotes, but evidently yours is not 
doing so (my win32-x86-mingw build does strip them, but not my win32-x86 
build).  You can add two lines to the base/src/softIoc/makeInstallDir.pl file 
to fix this:

=== modified file 'src/softIoc/makeInstallDir.pl'

--- src/softIoc/makeInstallDir.pl       2010-09-27 22:42:42 +0000
+++ src/softIoc/makeInstallDir.pl       2011-12-05 18:33:24 +0000
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@
 my $path = shift;
 
 $path =~ s/\\/\\\\/gx;
+$path =~ s/^'//x;
+$path =~ s/'$//x;
 
 print "/* THIS IS A GENERATED FILE. DO NOT EDIT! */\n",
       "\n",

I will add this change to the 3.14.12.2 release of Base.

HTH,

- Andrew
-- 
Optimization is the process of taking something that works and
replacing it with something that almost works, but costs less.
-- Roger Needham


Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System