Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Timo Korhonen <[email protected]> · Mon, 20 Nov 2017 16:05:50 +0000

Indeed, I tried with OS X El Capitan. The same story; both Archive Utility
and command line  tar tell me that they have no permissions but I have for
sure permissions to write in that directory.

Trying to trace what happens:

Everything seems to be going fine until trying to create the
.gitattributes file. After that, no files could be created.
However, even those files that tar claimed to be able to create were not
there. Directories are but they are empty.
This is where my Mac expertise ends....

...
x ./base-7.0.1-pre1/test/
x ./base-7.0.1-pre1/test/Makefile
x ./base-7.0.1-pre1/test/tools/
x ./base-7.0.1-pre1/test/tools/Makefile
x ./base-7.0.1-pre1/test/tools/Snippets.plt
x ./base-7.0.1-pre1/
x ./base-7.0.1-pre1/.gitattributes: Can't create
'base-7.0.1-pre1/.gitattributes'
x ./base-7.0.1-pre1/.gitignore: Can't create 'base-7.0.1-pre1/.gitignore'
x ./base-7.0.1-pre1/.gitmodules: Can't create 'base-7.0.1-pre1/.gitmodules'
x ./base-7.0.1-pre1/LICENSE: Can't create 'base-7.0.1-pre1/LICENSE'
x ./base-7.0.1-pre1/Makefile: Can't create 'base-7.0.1-pre1/Makefile'
x ./base-7.0.1-pre1/README: Can't create 'base-7.0.1-pre1/README'
x ./base-7.0.1-pre1/configure/
x ./base-7.0.1-pre1/configure/CONFIG: Can't create
'base-7.0.1-pre1/configure/CONFIG'
x ./base-7.0.1-pre1/configure/CONFIG.CrossCommon: Can't create
'base-7.0.1-pre1/configure/CONFIG.CrossCommon'
....

Timo

On 20/11/17 16:28, "Heinz Junkes" <[email protected] on behalf
of [email protected]> wrote:

>The oddness seems to be related with OS X.
>
>On Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS and Debian 9 tar extracting works as expected.
>
>But on High Sierra we can’t extract the tar file.
>
>
>extracting the original tar.gz file on Ubuntu or Debian
>… then tar it on these systems
>-> can be extracted on OS X …
>
>
>On linux: 
>
>tar xvzf base-7.0.1-pre1.tar.gz
>tar cvzf base.tgz base-7.0.1-pre1
>
>base.tgz can be extracted on OS-X
>
>
>Heinz
>
>
>> On 20. Nov 2017, at 16:16, Timo Korhonen <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> On 20/11/17 16:03, "Michael Davidsaver" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> On 11/20/2017 08:21 AM, Timo Korhonen wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> During the weekend I downloaded and built the EPICS 7 tarball on my
>>>> (own)
>>>> computer, KDE Neon distro, based on Ubuntu 16.04.
>>>> 
>>>> Compiles all fine. All new modules are there in the source tree, as
>>>> expected. All good, thanks to everybody and congratulations!
>>> 
>>> I'm guessing that the oddness that Andrew and Heinz see has something
>>>to
>>> do with the version of 'tar' involved (Debian 9 has tar 1.29).
>> 
>> I did not notice any oddness.
>> 
>> Unrelated to this, I had an old RELEASE.local around in a directory
>>above
>> the base and scratched my head for a while why make in the base-7
>> directory picked up the wrong version...embarrassing to tell but was
>>easy
>> to solve.
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>>> However, I had the (perhaps naïve) expectation that when I use
>>>> makeBaseApp, I would get an doc with QSRV. This was not the case.
>>>> The next try was to follow Michael's instructions from the Barcelona
>>>> meeting, to add the QSRV definitions in the Makefile. Still no luck.
>>>> 
>>>> After hacking a while I managed to create an IOC with QSRV, but it was
>>>> not
>>>> exactly straightforward. I assume a newcomer would be confused.
>>>> 
>>>> I just wonder if this is the expected state? Maybe I am just missing
>>>> something obvious.
>>> 
>>> What problems did you encounter?  I've been working on documentation,
>>> and user feedback is the best (and maybe only) way to make this useful.
>>> 
>>> 
>>>https://github.com/epics-base/pva2pva/blob/master/documentation/mainpage
>>>.h
>> 
>> I try to repeat what I did and this time carefully note down all issues
>> that I encounter. During last weekend was just a quick exercise, I had a
>> bunch of other things to do at home so I was not very meticulous and
>>just
>> wanted quick results.
>> 
>> Timo
>> 
>

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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