Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Ralph Lange <[email protected]> · Thu, 19 Feb 2015 14:47:59 +0100

On 18/02/2015 18:18, Jameson Graef Rollins wrote:

On Thu, Feb 12 2015, "Williams Jr., Ernest L." <[email protected]> wrote:

[...]

I would like to hi-jack the EPICS Make system framework to build kernel modules.

I'm so sorry, but I feel compelled to speak out that the EPICS build
system is one of the more obscure, convoluted, and unfriendly to work
with as I have seen.  It makes packaging EPICS and related software
extremely difficult.

Hi Jamie,

As a Debian package maintainer, you are certainly aware of the EPICS

Debian packaging activities [1, 2].

Contributions are highly welcome.

   I would strongly advise against using it as a prototype for other projects.

For this application (building Linux kernel modules) I fully agree.

For EPICS related applications that need the same cross compilation

target architectures as your main EPICS tree - things might be different.

Cheers,
~Ralph

[1] http://epics.nsls2.bnl.gov/debian/
[2] https://github.com/epicsdeb

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System