Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Mark Rivers <[email protected]> · Mon, 14 Dec 2015 17:47:54 +0000

The library you need is Motif.  It looks like there is at least a source code version for Ubuntu 15 here:

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/vivid/+source/motif

I am not an Ubuntu user, but you might want to see if you can find a binary package to install called libmotif-dev or something similar.

Mark

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From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Adeel Akram [[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, December 14, 2015 11:34 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: MEDM Extension Make Failed on Ubuntu 15.10

Hello Guys,

I am new to EPICS. I am using EPICS base-3.15.3. I am using Ubuntu 15.10
64bit as test OS (I also need to install it on Debian 8.1 later on,
which is my server). Following is my epics installation directory structure

~/epics/base (successfully build)
~/epics/extensions

I am trying to install medm3.1.9 extension. After running
"adeel@ubuntu1510:~/epics/extensions/src/medm$ make" , I am getting
following errors (after some compiling)

...

../xgif.c:156:9: warning: variable ‘x’ set but not used
[-Wunused-but-set-variable]
      int x, y;
          ^
make[2]: *** No rule to make target '/usr/lib64/libXm.a', needed by
'medm'.  Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory
'/home/adeel/epics/extensions/src/medm/medm/O.linux-x86_64'
../../../../base/configure/RULES_ARCHS:64: recipe for target
'install.linux-x86_64' failed
make[1]: *** [install.linux-x86_64] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/adeel/epics/extensions/src/medm/medm'
../../../base/configure/RULES_DIRS:87: recipe for target 'medm.install'
failed
make: *** [medm.install] Error 2

It seems the problem is with libXm.a which is part of libxp-dev and its
not available on Ubuntu 15.10. I downloaded libxp-dev from launchpad but
it need libxp6 which is also not available on ubuntu. I searched on
tech-talk but I couldn't find the satisfactory solution. I will
appreciate your expert help. Please link if solution is already given
(may be I could not get it).

--
Best,
Adeel Akram
Universität Heidelberg.

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System