Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Michael Davidsaver <[email protected]> · Mon, 29 Oct 2018 10:01:09 -0700

On 10/29/18 9:51 AM, Kasemir, Kay wrote:
>> So the clients are not getting past the search phase with one server,
>> but succeed with the other.  So the obvious question is whether these
>> have different configurations/builds etc.
> 
>> Is 'training:ai1' is served from an older build?
> 
> When I use the plain base R7.0.1.1, the makeBaseApp.pl -t example creates an IOC that includes qsrv.

Ok, so the IOC had an older pvAccessCPP version.  This should still
work, though you may need to explicitly set the address list

> I updated PVAccess and PVData to those branches from your repo, and the overall build failed.
> Then I recompiled the example IOC, since you suggested base should be good enough,
> the aborted built went far enough.
> There was no build error for the IOC, but it doesn't seem to contain any PVA server any more.
> 
> ==> Let me know how I should build EPICS base to try your updates.
> This is what I tried, which failed:
> 
> wget https://epics.anl.gov/download/base/base-7.0.1.1.tar.gz

With the impending 7.0.2 release, and a busy year of development,
it would be good to start with the latest from github.com
for all modules.

> git clone --recursive https://github.com/epics-base/epics-base
> cd epics-base/modules/pvData
> git remote add md https://github.com/mdavidsaver/pvDataCPP
> git fetch md
> git reset --hard md/structformatter
> cd ../pvAccess
> git remote add md https://github.com/mdavidsaver/pvAccessCPP
> git fetch md
> git reset --hard md/pvtoolsrework

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System