Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

On 5/13/24 12:37, Johnson, Andrew N. via Tech-talk wrote:
> IIRC the original build rules for DB_INSTALLS allow the source path to point into a support module or other external directory, whereas the DB rules were designed for generating and copying files from the local application only. Thus you can use DB_INSTALLS += $(ASYN)/db/asynRecord.dbto copy that file from your Asyn module into the IOC's $(TOP)/dbdirectory.

... so that an iocsh script need only read files from "$(TOP)/db".

I see this as an important complement to static linking of IOC executables.
Both act to "isolate" an IOC instance from changes to files elsewhere in
the system.  Hopefully avoiding a situation where an unplanned IOC restart
picks up unexpected changes.