Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Just a little PSA.  Manually copying libraries between different linux
distributions is a recipe for extremely hard to troubleshoot misbehavior.

FYI, for Debian derived distributions the "apt-file" utilities knows how
to answer the question "which package provides file X".

eg. on Debian 8 amd64

> $ apt-file search libXp.so
> libxp-dev: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXp.so



On 07/25/2016 11:29 AM, Hulusi Öz wrote:
> I tried to do that but it doesn't recognize the package. On Ubuntu, it
> is also the same situation, but i installed libxpm package instead of
> it. Eventhough i did the same step in Mint,it doesnt work. Therefore, i
> copy the libXp.a file from Ubuntu's lib folder to the Mint's folder. It
> works fine now. But, thanks for your response..
>
> 25 Tem 2016 17:25 tarihinde "Michael Westfall" <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> yazdı:
>
>     You probably just needed to do:
>
>     sudo apt-get install libxp-dev
>
>     On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 12:55 PM, Hulusi Öz <[email protected]
>     <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>         It is SOLVED..
>         I take the "libXp.a" file on Ubuntu 16.04 and copy that to the
>         Linux Mint "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu" path. And the problem is
>         solved.
>
>         I don't know why that doesn't work in Linux Mint, but if someone
>         has this problem, this may help..
>
>         Best Regards..
>         Hulusi
>
>         2016-07-24 18:28 GMT+03:00 Hulusi Öz <[email protected]
>         <mailto:[email protected]>>:

>
>             Hi Everyone,
>
>             I have already installed Epics_Base, Medm, and some other
>             libraries on my other computer which is Ubuntu 16.04.
>
>             For Linux Mint Mate 18, I installed base,extension package,
>             but for MEDM, I couldn't do that.
>
>             I have changed the
>             extensions/configure/os/CONFIG_SITE.linux-x86_64.linux-x86_64 .
>             I installed the libraries except libxp-dev. When I try to
>             install this library,it says there are others libraries
>             which refers to that. ( In Ubuntu, I couldn't also install
>             that library). Then, I installed "libxpm-dev" and
>             "libxmu-dev" . In Ubuntu, MEDM worked fine, but in Linux
>             Mint, it doesn't work.
>             It keeps saying "libXp.a" error :
>
>             %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>             make -C ./printUtils install
>             make[1]: Entering directory
>             '/opt/epics/extensions/src/medm3_1_9/printUtils'
>             make -C O.linux-x86_64 -f ../Makefile TOP=../../../..
>             T_A=linux-x86_64 install
>             make[2]: Entering directory
>             '/opt/epics/extensions/src/medm3_1_9/printUtils/O.linux-x86_64'
>             make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'install'.
>             make[2]: Leaving directory
>             '/opt/epics/extensions/src/medm3_1_9/printUtils/O.linux-x86_64'
>             make[1]: Leaving directory
>             '/opt/epics/extensions/src/medm3_1_9/printUtils'
>             make -C ./xc install
>             make[1]: Entering directory
>             '/opt/epics/extensions/src/medm3_1_9/xc'
>             make -C O.linux-x86_64 -f ../Makefile TOP=../../../..
>             T_A=linux-x86_64 install
>             make[2]: Entering directory
>             '/opt/epics/extensions/src/medm3_1_9/xc/O.linux-x86_64'
>             make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'install'.
>             make[2]: Leaving directory
>             '/opt/epics/extensions/src/medm3_1_9/xc/O.linux-x86_64'
>             make[1]: Leaving directory
>             '/opt/epics/extensions/src/medm3_1_9/xc'
>             make -C ./medm install
>             make[1]: Entering directory
>             '/opt/epics/extensions/src/medm3_1_9/medm'
>             make -C O.linux-x86_64 -f ../Makefile TOP=../../../..
>             T_A=linux-x86_64 install
>             make[2]: Entering directory
>             '/opt/epics/extensions/src/medm3_1_9/medm/O.linux-x86_64'
>             make[2]: *** No rule to make target
>             '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXp.a', needed by 'medm'.  Stop.
>             make[2]: Leaving directory
>             '/opt/epics/extensions/src/medm3_1_9/medm/O.linux-x86_64'
>             ../../../../base/configure/RULES_ARCHS:63: recipe for target
>             'install.linux-x86_64' failed
>             make[1]: *** [install.linux-x86_64] Error 2
>             make[1]: Leaving directory
>             '/opt/epics/extensions/src/medm3_1_9/medm'
>             ../../../base/configure/RULES_DIRS:70: recipe for target
>             'medm.install' failed
>             make: *** [medm.install] Error 2
>             %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>
>             Thanks in advance..
>             Best Regards..
>
>             Hulusi
>
>
>
>
>
>     --
>     Mike Westfall
>     Control Systems Software Engineer
>
>