Re: R3.14.2

[Andrew Johnson <anj@aps.anl.gov>]

Jeff,

I think you read more into my message than I intended, which was written 
from relative ignorance of how EPICS IOCs are built and used on Windows.
My original aim was to resolve the issues that we have at the moment when 
building IOCs for Linux (which defaults to SHARED_LIBRARIES=YES).  I don't 
think it's acceptable to have to set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable before 
running binaries, especially when there's a way to build the path to the 
necessary shared libraries (which are not necessarily all in base - the 
sequencer also uses a couple of libraries at runtime) into the binary in 
the first place.  At present that can be done manually on Linux with 
settings in one or more config files, but it's silly for these to have to 
be made manually when they can easily be automated, which is what I've 
been working on.  As long as we can do that on Linux and Solaris (and HP 
if Ralph and the other HP-ers want it) I don't really care that it can't 
be done on Windows, which seems to be the case.
I don't intend to make any changes to the win32 configuration files, I 
just wanted to ensure that I had explored all of the targets with this 
proposal.  It can't be done the same way on win32, so end of story.
- Andrew
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