Re: 3.14.12 Issues

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

Hi Ernest,

On Saturday 20 November 2010 11:25:52 Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote:
>
> I tried the recommendations mentioned in the EPICS Config file for my
> architecture.
> # This one does not work with RHEL 5
> #COMMANDLINE_LIBRARY = READLINE
>
> # This one works but had to do a clean uninstall and
> # Try again. :)
> COMMANDLINE_LIBRARY = READLINE_NCURSES

I've just modified the wording of the release notes and added some more 
comments to the configure/os/CONFIG_SITE.Common.linux-* files.  I will not 
change the default setting though, newer Linux versions *do* work with that 
default and I don't want to link every binary we build on such systems with 
other libraries unnecessarily.

On Saturday 20 November 2010 11:54:19 Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote:
>
> In the RELEASE_NOTES for R3-14-12, we have:
>
>         VxWorks 6.7 support
>
> Added build support for the latest Wind River release.
> ==============================================
>
> That should say vxWorks 6.8, right?

The 6.7 was correct when I originally wrote it, but I added the 6.8 support 
well before the -pre1 release came out (that's the version we're going to be 
using here at the APS).  I corrected the release notes a few days ago, adding 
a caveat that we do not support vxWorks on SMP systems yet (that's going to 
need a fair bit of work).

Thanks for the reports,

- Andrew
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