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Subject: Re: EPICS base R3.15.5 special CONFIG and RULE files
From: Andrew Johnson <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2017 18:07:03 -0600 
Hi Kristi

On 11/09/2017 04:59 PM, Luchini, Kristi L. wrote:
> 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. 

OK, my apologies for misunderstanding. I won't have time to look through
your files tonight, I'll try to take a look and respond in more detail
tomorrow.

In the meantime you might want to try out a Free Software tool called
remake which is basically a modified version of GNUmake that adds flags
that allow you to debug and step through Makefiles. I use it
occasionally and it can help to understand what's going on, although the
EPICS build system is somewhat complex (!).

One other technique I use is a PRINT rule that I have in my personal
~/configure/RULES_USER file. This file is read in towards the end of
*every* EPICS build that I do from my account, so be careful what you
put in there (there are similar ~/configure/CONFIG_USER.* files also
supported by the builsd system). Here's my file:

> tux% cat ~/configure/RULES_USER 
> #---------------------------------------------------------
> # These rules support printing a Makefile variable values.
> # Most only work inside an O.<arch> build directory.
> #   make PRINT.T_A
> 
> PRINT_Var = $(subst PRINT.,,$@)
> PRINT.%:
> 	@echo "$(PRINT_Var) = '$($(PRINT_Var))'"
> 
> .PHONY: PRINT

Inside an O.<arch> directory I can type 'make PRINT.<varname>' and it
shows me the value of that variable, e.g:

> tux% cd O.RTEMS-uC5282/
> tux% make PRINT.OS_CLASS
> make -f ../Makefile TOP=../.. T_A=RTEMS-uC5282  PRINT.OS_CLASS
> make[1]: Entering directory '/home/phoebus3/ANJ/epics/base/3.15/configure/O.RTEMS-uC5282'
> OS_CLASS = 'RTEMS'
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/phoebus3/ANJ/epics/base/3.15/configure/O.RTEMS-uC5282'

HTH,

- Andrew

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