Experimental Physics and
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From: Johnson, Andrew N. <anj at anl.gov>
Sent: Thursday, June 4, 2020 11:41 AM
To: Mark Rivers <rivers at cars.uchicago.edu>
Cc: EPICS core-talk <core-talk at aps.anl.gov>
Subject: Re: Problem booting vxWorks with base 7.0.4

 

I am trying what you suggested, but I am having problems.  I deleted /usr/local/vw/vxWorks-6.9 and made that a soft link to /usr/local/vw/vxWorks-6.9.4.

 

corvette:local/epics/base-7.0.4>ls -ld /usr/local/vw/vx*

-rw-rw-r-- 1 epics domain users 980391644 Jan  6  2017 /usr/local/vw/vxWorks-6.8.tar.gz

lrwxrwxrwx 1 epics domain users        13 Jun  4 08:10 /usr/local/vw/vxWorks-6.9 -> vxWorks-6.9.4

drwxrwsr-x 5 epics domain users       122 Sep 24  2014 /usr/local/vw/vxWorks-6.9.4

 

If I use the distribution version of CONFIG_SITE.Common.vxWorksCommon from base 7.0.4 I then get these errors:

 

corvette:local/epics/base-7.0.4>make -sj

make[4]: /usr/local/vw/vxWorks-6.9/gnu/4.3.3-vxworks-6.9/x86-linux2/bin/ccppc: Command not found

make[4]: /usr/local/vw/vxWorks-6.9/gnu/4.3.3-vxworks-6.9/x86-linux2/bin/ccppc: Command not found

make[4]: /usr/local/vw/vxWorks-6.9/gnu/4.3.3-vxworks-6.9/x86-linux2/bin/ccppc: Command not found

make[4]: /usr/local/vw/vxWorks-6.9/gnu/4.3.3-vxworks-6.9/x86-linux2/bin/ccppc: Command not found

make[4]: /usr/local/vw/vxWorks-6.9/gnu/4.3.3-vxworks-6.9/x86-linux2/bin/ccppc: Command not found

make[4]: /usr/local/vw/vxWorks-6.9/gnu/4.3.3-vxworks-6.9/x86-linux2/bin/ccppc: Command not found

 

That is because the compiler path is 

/usr/local/vw/vxWorks-6.9/gnu/4.3.3-vxworks-6.9.4/x86-linux2/bin/ccppc

not 

/usr/local/vw/vxWorks-6.9/gnu/4.3.3-vxworks-6.9/x86-linux2/bin/ccppc.

 

If I change CONFIG_SITE.Common.vxWorksCommon as follows:

 

index 0b0654a..9e97ec5 100644

--- a/configure/os/CONFIG_SITE.Common.vxWorksCommon

+++ b/configure/os/CONFIG_SITE.Common.vxWorksCommon

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@

#VXWORKS_VERSION = 6.6

#VXWORKS_VERSION = 6.7

#VXWORKS_VERSION = 6.8

-VXWORKS_VERSION = 6.9

+VXWORKS_VERSION = 6.9.4

 

 

I then get these errors:

 

corvette:local/epics/base-7.0.4>make -sj

make[4]: /usr/local/vw/vxWorks-6.9.4/gnu/-vxworks-6.9.4/x86-linux2/bin/ccppc: Command not found

make[4]: /usr/local/vw/vxWorks-6.9.4/gnu/-vxworks-6.9.4/x86-linux2/bin/ccppc: Command not found

make[4]: /usr/local/vw/vxWorks-6.9.4/gnu/-vxworks-6.9.4/x86-linux2/bin/ccppc: Command not found

make[4]: /usr/local/vw/vxWorks-6.9.4/gnu/-vxworks-6.9.4/x86-linux2/bin/ccppc: Command not found

make[4]: /usr/local/vw/vxWorks-6.9.4/gnu/-vxworks-6.9.4/x86-linux2/bin/ccppc: Command not found

make[4]: /usr/local/vw/vxWorks-6.9.4/gnu/-vxworks-6.9.4/x86-linux2/bin/ccppc: Command not found

make[4]: /usr/local/vw/vxWorks-6.9.4/gnu/-vxworks-6.9.4/x86-linux2/bin/ccppc: Command not found

make[4]: /usr/local/vw/vxWorks-6.9.4/gnu/-vxworks-6.9.4/x86-linux2/bin/ccppc: Command not found

 

What do I need to do to use the distributed version of CONFIG_SITE.Common.vxWorksCommon?

 

My /usr/local/vw/vxWorks-6.9.4 tree is a direct copy from APSshare.

Thanks,

Mark

 

 

 

 

From: Johnson, Andrew N. <anj at anl.gov> 
Sent: Wednesday, June 3, 2020 7:38 PM
To: Mark Rivers <rivers at cars.uchicago.edu>
Cc: Michael Davidsaver <mdavidsaver at gmail.com>; EPICS core-talk <core-talk at aps.anl.gov>
Subject: Re: Problem booting vxWorks with base 7.0.4

 

Hi Mark, 

 

On Jun 3, 2020, at 7:29 PM, Mark Rivers <rivers at cars.uchicago.edu> wrote:

 

The problem was indeed related to that message.  Somehow this file in my base/configure/os got changed.  I changed it back:


diff --git a/configure/os/CONFIG_SITE.Common.vxWorksCommon b/configure/os/CONFIG_SITE.Common.vxWorksCommon
index 0b0654a..6a1d6bb 100644
--- a/configure/os/CONFIG_SITE.Common.vxWorksCommon
+++ b/configure/os/CONFIG_SITE.Common.vxWorksCommon
@@ -21,5 +21,5 @@ VXWORKS_VERSION = 6.9
# WIND_BASE is where you installed the Wind River software.

#WIND_BASE = /usr/local/vw/tornado22-$(ARCH_CLASS)
-WIND_BASE = /usr/local/vw/vxWorks-$(VXWORKS_VERSION)
+WIND_BASE = /usr/local/vw/vxWorks-6.9.4
#WIND_BASE = /ade/vxWorks/$(VXWORKS_VERSION)

 

Your “wrong” configuration is the APS Accelerator IOC’s “right” configuration and hence how the EPICS source code normally comes. If you can you might want to rename your old vxWorks-6.9 directory to something else to catch this sooner in case it happens again with another release; or just remove the original 6.9 tree completely and make that a soft-link to the newer release.

 

- Andrew

 

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