Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Luchini, Kristi L." <[email protected]> · Thu, 9 Nov 2017 22:59:58 +0000

Hi Andrew,

>Did you mean to send this message to tech-talk, because I don't think anyone outside of SLAC can help you with what I presume to be a local feature of your installation.
>The "-1.0" on the end of your Base version number is another indicator that you have local customizations which the rest of us probably won't know anything about.
I was thinking to myself that I should remove the 1-0 in the EPICS base,  but apparently my fingers were working independently! The EPICS Base version I am referring to is the downloaded version  of R3.15.5. 

In an attempt to clarify, I have an "alhsubstitutions" file (see below),  from which I want to generate an "alhConfig" file and install into  $TOP/alh
Under EPICS R3.14.12, I created a RULES.Alarms, similar to RULES.Db, which uses MSI to generate a db file from a substitutions file.  If I look at the R3.15.5 Applications Developer Guide, sections 4.6.34 and 4.6.35, it does talk about CONFIG_<file type>  and RULES_<file type>. These files should be added to configure/Makefile.

However, my RULES file from R3.14.12, now either generate errors during the build or it will generate an empty alhConfig which it installs in to $TOP/alh.  
Is there an example of a RULES_<file type> that I can used.  Below is what I am using, which clearly is wrong.

File configure/Makefile
CHECK_RELEASE = YES
TARGETS = $(CONFIG_TARGETS)
CONFIGS += $(subst ../,,$(wildcard $(CONFIG_INSTALLS)))
CFG +=CONFIG_ALARMS RULES_ALARMS
CFG +=CONFIG_PROTOS
include $(TOP)/configure/RULES

File: configure/CONFIG_ALARMS
FILE_TYPE+=ALHS
INSTALL_ALHS = $(INSTALL_LOCATION)/alh

File:  configure/RULES_ALARMS    --- similar to R3.14.12   RULES.Db

[luchini@lcls-dev3 configure]$ cat RULES_ALARMS
# Where to install configuration files for ALH (Alarm Handler)

vpath %.alhConfig $(USR_VPATH) $(GENERIC_SRC_DIRS) $(dir $(ALH))
vpath %.alhsubstitutions $(USR_VPATH) $(GENERIC_SRC_DIRS) $(COMMON_DIR)

INSTALL_ALH = $(INSTALL_LOCATION)/alh

##################################################### Restore Flags

INSTALL_ALHFLAGS = -I $(INSTALL_ALH)
RELEASE_ALHFLAGS = $(patsubst %/dbd,%/restore, $(RELEASE_DBDFLAGS))
ALHFLAGS  = $($*_ALHFLAGS) $(USR_ALHFLAGS) -I. $(GENERIC_SRC_INCLUDES) $(INSTALL_ALHFLAGS) $(RELEASE_ALHFLAGS)
ALHFLAGS += -I$(COMMON_DIR)

#####################################################  Targets

INSTALL_ALHS += $(addprefix $(INSTALL_ALH)/,$(notdir $(ALHS)))

COMMON_ALHS += $(filter $(COMMON_DIR)/%, $(foreach file, $(ALHS), \
    $(firstword  $(SOURCE_ALHS) $(COMMON_DIR)/$(file) ) ) )
SOURCE_ALHS = $(wildcard $(file) $(SOURCE_ALHS_bbb) )
SOURCE_ALHS_bbb = $(foreach dir, $(GENERIC_SRC_DIRS), $(SOURCE_ALHS_aaa)  )
SOURCE_ALHS_aaa = $(addsuffix /$(file), $(dir) )

COMMONS = $(COMMON_DIR)/*.alhConfig \
          $(COMMON_DIR)/*.alhsubstitutions

#####################################################

ifndef T_A

COMMON_DIR = .
INSTALL_ALHS =
COMMON_ALHS = .
COMMONS = $(ALHS)

-include $(TOP)/configure/O.$(EPICS_HOST_ARCH)/CONFIG_APP_INCLUDE

all:    install

install: buildInstall

buildInstall : build

rebuild: clean install

.PHONY: all inc build install clean rebuild buildInstall

endif # T_A defined

ifneq (,$(strip $(ALH_INSTALLS)))
buildInstall : restoreInstalls
endif

.PHONY: restoreInstalls

build : $(COMMON_ALHS) \
        $(INSTALL_ALHS)

#clean::
clean:
        @$(RM) $(COMMONS)

##################################################### Substitution files

$(INSTALL_ALH)/%.alhsubstitutions: %.alhsubstitutions
        @echo "Installing alhsubstitutions file $@"
        @$(INSTALL) -d -m 644 $< $(@D)

.PRECIOUS: $(COMMON_DIR)/%.alhsubstitutions

##################################################### alhConfig files

$(COMMON_DIR)/%.alhConfig: %.alhsubstitutions
        @echo "Inflating alhConfig from $< using local rule"
        @$(RM) $@
        @echo "$(MSI) -S$< > $(@F) </dev/null"
        @$(MSI) -I.. $(ALHFLAGS) -S$< </dev/null > $@

$(INSTALL_ALH)/%.alhConfig: $(COMMON_DIR)/%.alhConfig
        @echo "Installing alhConfig file $@"
        @$(INSTALL) -d -m 644 $< $(@D)

$(INSTALL_ALH)/%: %
        @echo "Installing restore file $@"
        @$(INSTALL) -d -m 644 $< $(@D)

$(INSTALL_ALH)/%: ../%
        @echo "Installing restore file $@"
        @$(INSTALL) -d -m 644 $< $(@D)

restoreInstalls:  $(ALH_INSTALLS)
        @echo "Installing $(^F)"
        @$(INSTALL) -d -m 555 $^ $(INSTALL_ALH)

.PRECIOUS: $(COMMON_ALHS)

##################################################### END OF FILE

File:  Makefile:
TOP=../../..
include $(TOP)/configure/CONFIG
ALHS += ntwk_inj.alhConfig
include $(TOP)/configure/RULES
include $(TOP)/configure/RULES_ALARMS

File:  ntwk_inj.alhsubstititons: 
file ../../common/deviceTop.alhConfig
{
   pattern {  parent, grp, alias, guidance          }
           {  NULL, NTWK:INJ:1, Injector, "Injector network status"  } }

- Kristi

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Johnson [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2017 1:33 PM
To: Luchini, Kristi L.; '[email protected]'
Subject: Re: EPICS base R3.15.5-1.0 special CONFIG and RULE files

Hi Kristi,

On 11/09/2017 01:26 PM, Luchini, Kristi L. wrote:
> I'm upgrading an EPICS IOC Application from R3.14.12 to R3.15.5-1.0 
> and I'm using the new schema of adding  configure/CONFIG_ALARMS file 
> and including this file in the configure/Makefile.  This does indeed 
> install alhConfig files into the directory $TOP/alh. However, it 
> method does not generate alhConfig files from an alhsubstitutions
> file, without  adding configure/RULES.Alarms file.   I was told that
> I don't need a special RULES file anymore with this new version of 
> EPICS.  Am I missing something?

Did you mean to send this message to tech-talk, because I don't think anyone outside of SLAC can help you with what I presume to be a local feature of your installation. The "-1.0" on the end of your Base version number is another indicator that you have local customizations which the rest of us probably won't know anything about.

- Andrew

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