Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Mark Rivers <[email protected]> · Fri, 19 Feb 2016 21:27:30 +0000

Hi Pete,

In general using <product>_SYS_LIBS +=XXXX is correct, as you said.

But in the special case of readline usually it is included via the following lines in EPICS base/configure/os/CONFIG_SITE.Common.linux-x86_64

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# Depending on your version of Linux you'll want one of the following
# lines to enable command-line editing and history in iocsh.  If you're
# not sure which, start with the top one and work downwards until the
# build doesn't fail to link the readline library.  If none of them work,
# comment them all out to build without readline support.

# No other libraries needed (recent Fedora, Ubuntu etc.):
COMMANDLINE_LIBRARY = READLINE

# Needs -lncurses (RHEL 5 etc.):
#COMMANDLINE_LIBRARY = READLINE_NCURSES

# Needs -lcurses (older versions)
#COMMANDLINE_LIBRARY = READLINE_CURSES
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Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of D Peter Siddons
Sent: Friday, February 19, 2016 3:11 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: referencing libraries

OK, forget it :) The magic words are:

<product>_SYS_LIBS += readline

Pete.

On 02/19/2016 04:05 PM, D Peter Siddons wrote:
> I'm building an IOC, and I want it to include the operating system 
> libreadline (which it doesn't by default). How do I indicate that in 
> the application Makefile?
> Pete.
>

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