FW: Circular

[Mark Rivers via Core-talk <core-talk@aps.anl.gov>]

I sent the previous message to Tom Cobb rather than core-talk by mistake.

 

From: Mark Rivers
Sent: Monday, November 4, 2019 6:51 PM
To: 'Johnson, Andrew N.' <anj@anl.gov>
Cc: Cobb, TM (Tom) <tom.cobb@diamond.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: Circular

 

Ø  Your first line says TOP=../ instead of the more usual TOP=.. which is what's causing the double-slash ..//.. in the path given in that warning message, but that's benign.

Have you tried doing a 'make distclean' recently?

 

I did make distclean but that does not help.  After running make distclean and then make, each time I run make (when there is nothing to do) I see this:

 

corvette:areaDetector/ADVimba/vimbaSupportCPP>make

make -C O.linux-x86_64 -f ../Makefile TOP=../.. \

    T_A=linux-x86_64 install

make[1]: Entering directory `/home/epics/devel/areaDetector-3-8/ADVimba/vimbaSupportCPP/O.linux-x86_64'

make[1]: Circular libVimbaCPP.so <- ../../lib/linux-x86_64/libVimbaCPP.so dependency dropped.

make[1]: Nothing to be done for `install'.

make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/epics/devel/areaDetector-3-8/ADVimba/vimbaSupportCPP/O.linux-x86_64'

 

This is with make 4.2 on Linux.

 

With make 4.2.1 on Windows I don’t see that message.

 

Thanks,

Mark

 

 

From: Core-talk <core-talk-bounces@aps.anl.gov> On Behalf Of Johnson, Andrew N. via Core-talk
Sent: Monday, November 4, 2019 5:31 PM
To: core-talk@aps.anl.gov
Subject: Re: Circular

 

Hi Again Mark,

On 11/4/19 7:30 AM, Mark Rivers via Core-talk wrote:

I have a fairly simple Makefile (attached) to build a support library for areaDetector/ADVimba.

 

It seems to work OK, but I get this message when I build:

 

corvette:areaDetector/ADVimba/vimbaSupportCPP>make -s

make[1]: Circular libVimbaCPP.so <- ..//../lib/linux-x86_64/libVimbaCPP.so dependency dropped.

 

Any idea why I am getting that?

Your first line says TOP=../ instead of the more usual TOP=.. which is what's causing the double-slash ..//.. in the path given in that warning message, but that's benign.

Have you tried doing a 'make distclean' recently? I'm using the Jenkins epics-areaDetector build workspace to look at it and I have the current ADVimba git master branch building in vimbaSupportCPP without getting that error. Base-3.14 fails to install any of the .hpp files because it doesn't have a vpath for finding %.hpp files, but this change fixes that:

diff --git a/vimbaSupportCPP/Makefile b/vimbaSupportCPP/Makefile
index 8fb0165..d09ce0a 100755
--- a/vimbaSupportCPP/Makefile
+++ b/vimbaSupportCPP/Makefile
@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
-TOP=../
+TOP=..
 include $(TOP)/configure/CONFIG
 #----------------------------------------
 #  ADD MACRO DEFINITIONS AFTER THIS LINE
 #=============================
 
+vpath %.hpp $(SRC_DIRS)
+
 INC += $(patsubst ../%, %, $(wildcard ../VimbaCPP/Include/*))
 
 LIBRARY_IOC_WIN32 += VimbaCPP

I don't have a build against a newer Base though, so I'm not sure what else might be going on.

- Andrew

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