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"Zimoch Dirk \(PSI\) via Core-talk" <core-talk at aps.anl.gov> · Tue, 23 Nov 2021 08:33:51 +0000

Hi Andrew,

Thanks for the clarification. As I had never run the test harnesses before on vxWorks and cannot find documentation on
how to do this, I was a bit lost. My build directory is on AFS which I cannot mount on vxWorks. Only my install
directory is on NFS. FTP is no option either because he IOC is in another network. I will copy the O.* directories then.

Dirk

On Mon, 2021-11-22 at 19:04 +0000, Johnson, Andrew N. wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
> -- 
> Complexity comes for free, simplicity you have to work for.
> 

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