Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Konrad, Martin" <[email protected]> · Fri, 2 Mar 2018 14:18:43 +0000

Hi Michael,
You got to be careful with your file names. IIRC the EPICS build system
contains rules that automatically expand templates and substitution
files using MSI as follows:

.substitutions -> .db
.template -> .db

The ".template" extension is only required if your file is using
"substitute" and "include". If your files don't contain these keywords
".db" would probably be a better choice. If you use these keywords you
probably want to refer to "foo.db" in your substitution file to include
the already expanded file.

That being said, the following works as expected:

$ grep DB Makefile
DB += file.db
$ cat file.substitutions
file "other1.db" {
{X=1}
}
file "other2.db" {
{X=2}
}
$ cat other1.db
# from file.template $(X)
$ cat other2.db
# from other.template $(X)
$ make -C ../../ distclean all
$ cat ../../db/file.db
# from file.template 1
# from other.template 2

HTH,

Martin

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Martin Konrad
High Performance Controls Team Leader
Facility for Rare Isotope Beams
Michigan State University
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East Lansing, MI 48824-1321, USA
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System