gateway

["Konrad, Martin" <konrad@frib.msu.edu>]

Hi Andrew,
 > I'm wondering if we should change the way we build the PV Gateway to
 > make it a stand-alone module instead of depending on extensionsConfig.
As you know, I'm not a friend of the old build system, mainly since

1. even in the most simple cases you have to customize files like 
configure/RELEASE.
2. it does not support "real" out-of-tree builds
3. it includes files outside the $(TOP) directory without finding them 
automatically. Renaming an upstream directory of some other EPICS 
component might break your build.

That's why I suggested building the gateway with CMake a while ago [1]. 
Building the gateway with CMake removes all dependencies on the 
extensions directory. Unfortunately my patch never made it into the repo 
[2]. I pushed the patch to [3] to ease review. Note that it is using 
Michael's CMake files so he deserves the most of the credit.

Let me know what you think.

Cheers,

Martin

P.S.: We might want to remove the Debian packaging stuff in favor of the 
existing more Debian-style way of building cagateway [4]. This was 
intended to be a

[1] http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/tech-talk/2011/msg01717.php
[2] http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/tech-talk/2011/msg01884.php
[3] https://code.launchpad.net/~info-martin-konrad/epics-gateway/cmake
[4] https://github.com/epicsdeb/epics-cagateway

-- 
Martin Konrad
Control System Engineer
Facility for Rare Isotope Beams
Michigan State University
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East Lansing, MI 48824-1321, USA
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Email: konrad@frib.msu.edu