Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

On Nov 19, 2021, at 2:26 PM, Michael Davidsaver via Core-talk <core-talk at aps.anl.gov> wrote:

On 11/19/21 6:05 AM, Zimoch Dirk (PSI) wrote:

BTW: Some other tests harnesses require dbd files like linkTest.dbd that do not get installed (even though the *Harness.munch files are installed).

I'll defer this to Andrew.

Currently the configure/os/CONFIG.Common.vxWorksCommon definitions don’t support building .munch files for TESTPROD (or TESTPROD_vxWorks) targets, only for PROD (and hence PROD_vxWorks) targets.

The VxWorks test harnesses aren't actually intended to be installed — the .dbd files aren’t the only files that the test code needs to access. Because of the above limitation though we have to build them as PROD targets, and the files get installed because of that. Test programs are intended to be run after doing a cd to the appropriate O.<arch> directory which is where ‘make runtests’ and friends run them from for all of the host architectures. In my scripts for running the tests on VxWorks I cd to the test build directories, load the .munch files and run the harness programs directly and they work fine for me.

I don’t have time to work on fixing the TESTPROD builds myself and I’m not sure that it’s really worth the effort, although I wouldn’t object to it being done.

- Andrew