Experimental Physics and
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"J. Lewis Muir" <[email protected]> · Mon, 25 Feb 2013 10:43:46 -0600

On 2/25/13 10:18 AM, Kohler wrote:
> Hi,
> Just in case anyone is having problems compiling MEDM on Ubuntu1204,
> here are some tips:
> MEDM compile expects some library files in /usr/lib
> Ubuntu1204 puts these files in /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu
> so one needs the following symbolic links in /usr/lib, MEDM then compiles:
>   ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXm.a /usr/lib/libXm.a
>   ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXt.a /usr/lib/libXt.a
>   ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXp.a /usr/lib/libXp.a
>   ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXmu.a /usr/lib/libXmu.a
>   ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libX11.a /usr/lib/libX11.a
>   ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXext.a /usr/lib/libXext.a
>   ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXm.so /usr/lib/libXm.so
> 
> Remember to install the following package for the larger fonts used by
> MEDM to work on Ubuntu1204:
>   apt-get install xfonts-100dpi
> 
> For StripTool you also need:
>   ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXpm.a /usr/lib/libXpm.a

Hi, Ivan.

Creating those symlinks is *not* the right thing to do.  You're having
problems because Ubuntu 12.04 uses a "multiarch" [1] file system layout.

What you need to do is correctly define the X11_LIB, X11_INC, XPM_LIB,
etc. EPICS build system configure variables for your target
architecture.  (Or the EPICS build system would need to be made smarter.)

Lewis

1. http://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch

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