Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Dudley, David" <[email protected]> · Thu, 4 Dec 2014 14:20:20 +0000

And so the plot thickens... (and I'm sitting kinda funny...)

In my RELEASE file I have a definition for MSI like:
MSI=/usr/bin/msi (which is also in the path).

Under 3.14.12.4 (after setting the proper environment...dah!) either with or without the MSI definition, it calls the msi program, and everything is happy.  Files are created OK, and the world is great.

Under 3.15.1 (again... get the environment right!), the build process uses the mkmf.pl program regardless of where msi is in the path, or defined in the RELEASE file, or defined in the Makefile... basically it uses the mkmf.pl program no matter what.  And that's where the problem lies.

Question:
3.15.1 Release notes state that dbLoadTemplate can now handle macros on the call to the function.  Does it handle the full MSI definition, or the limited mkmf.pl definition???

Got any idea how to make 3.15.1 use the msi program?

Later-

David Dudley
Controls Engineer III
Facility for Rare Isotope Beams
Michigan State University
640 South Shaw Lane
East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Tel. 517-908-7133
Email: [email protected]

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dudley, David
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2014 9:03 AM
To: EPICS Tech-Talk
Subject: RE: 3.15.1 DB Build Issue

I stand (ok... sit) corrected (and look silly doing it).

The substitution file works correctly through the MSI program, but doesn't work on either the 3.14  or 3.15 build systems.  Seems that maybe the mkmf.pl program doesn't allow more than one template file???

Sort of breaks my substitution files, and I'll have to think of where to go from here.

Later-

David

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dudley, David
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2014 8:43 AM
To: EPICS Tech-Talk
Subject: RE: 3.15.1 DB Build Issue

Andrew,

Changing the template references in the DB Make file from _DEPENDS to _TEMPLATE didn't change a thing about the functions of the make.  I'm not sure it would have made a difference anyway, from the definition in 4.6.10 of the AppDevGuide.

However, I've run across a much more serious issue.

It seems that in my substitutions file, I can only have a single template file referenced.  I have a single substitution file that has sections for ai, ao, bi, and bo records.  All substitution lines in this file seem to use the first template definition file when the substitutions get expanded.

This worked on 3.14.12.4, but doesn't work in the new 3.15.1 software.

Included is the substitution file, and all sections of this file seem to use the first template definition.

Later-

David Dudley
Controls Engineer III
Facility for Rare Isotope Beams
Michigan State University
640 South Shaw Lane
East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Tel. 517-908-7133
Email: [email protected]

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Johnson [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2014 6:11 PM
To: Dudley, David
Subject: Re: DB Build Issue

Hi David,

On 12/03/2014 04:52 PM, Dudley, David wrote:
> I'm creating 2 .db files using substitution files and 4-template files 
> (ai,ao,bi,bo,...).
> 
> In the Makefile, I have these lines (different because I was trying to 
> diagnose what's going on):

quoted text as image, how confusing...

> When I change the first template file template file, both output files 
> generate fine.
> 
> When I change any of the other template files, only the second output 
> file generates.
> 
> I originally had all the templates on a single line, as in the second 
> file definition, but that didn't work either.
> 
> Looking at the definition in 4.6.10, it seems that perhaps I shouldn't 
> be able to define more than one template file anyway????
> 
> Ideas would be appreciated.

Shouldn't those variables be spelled _TEMPLATE, not _DEPENDS?

- Andrew

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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System