Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Benjamin Franksen <[email protected]> · Mon, 9 Apr 2018 13:58:48 +0200

On 03/06/2018 11:11 PM, Bruce Hill wrote:
> We ran into this issue as well.
> It happens when you have both foo.substitutions and foo.template
> in your Db directory and want msi to create and install foo.db.
> 
> Note that you can't rename foo.template to foo.db as it will just get
> installed w/o any msi expansion.
> 
> The problem in my view is that msi ignores all filenames specified in the
> substitutions file if a template filename is passed as an argument to msi.
> This is a deliberate choice in msi as we can see from the documentation.
>>
>>
>>       dbLoadTemplate Format
>>
>> This format is an extension of the format accepted by the EPICS IOC
>> command dbLoadTemplate, and allows templates to be expanded on the
>> host rather by using dbLoadTemplate at IOC boot time.
>>
>>     global {gbl_var1=gbl_val1, gbl_var2=gbl_val2, ...}
>>     file templatefile {
>>          /pattern format or regular format/
>>     }
>>     file "${WHERE}/template2" {
>>          /pattern format or regular format/
>>     }
>>
>> For the dbTemplate format, the template filename does not have to be
>> given on the command line, and is usually specified in the
>> substitutions file instead. If a template filename is given on the
>> command line it will override the filenames listed in the
>> substitutions files.
>>
> We fixed this by changing our RULES.Db after verifying that we had no use
> cases that relied on the above behavior.

Same here. These are the rules we use, including proper generation of
dependencies to be included by the Makefile:

DEPENDS+=$(patsubst %,%$(RAW)$(DEP),$(COMMON_DBS))

$(COMMON_DIR)/%.template$(DEP): %.substitutions
	$(ECHO) "Generating database dependencies from $(<F)"
	$(PERL) -e 'undef $$/; $$_=<>; @d=m/(?:^|})\s*file\s+([^{\s]*)\s*\{/mg;
print "$(COMMON_DIR)/$*.template: @d\n";' $< > $(@F).tmp
	$(MV) $(@F).tmp $@

$(COMMON_DIR)/%.db$(RAW)$(DEP): %.substitutions
	$(ECHO) "Generating database dependencies from $(<F)"
	$(PERL) -e 'undef $$/; $$_=<>; @d=m/(?:^|})\s*file\s+([^{\s]*)\s*\{/mg;
print "$(COMMON_DIR)/$*.db$(RAW): @d\n";' $< > $(@F).tmp
	$(MV) $(@F).tmp $@

$(COMMON_DIR)/%.db$(RAW): %.substitutions
	$(ECHO) "Inflating database from $(<F)"
	$(MSI) $(DBFLAGS) -S$< > $(@F).tmp
	$(MV) $(@F).tmp $@

Cheers
Ben
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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