Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> · Mon, 14 Dec 2015 11:51:34 -0600

Hi Adeel,

Did you following the Ubuntu instructions given at the bottom of the
MEDM page at http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/extensions/medm/index.php ?

If the list of Ubuntu packages needed has changed from the ones listed
there please let me know what else you have to install.

- Andrew

On 12/14/2015 11:34 AM, Adeel Akram wrote:
> 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).
> 

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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System