I just built base 7.0.7 on Centos 7 with no changes to the files in configure/os.
My IOCs now are not built with libreadline, while in base 7.0.6.1 they were, again with no changes to the configure/os files.
I see this change between base 7.0.6.1 and base 7.0.7
corvette:base-7.0.7/configure/os>git diff R7.0.6.1 R7.0.7 CONFIG_SITE.Common.linux-x
CONFIG_SITE.Common.linux-x86 CONFIG_SITE.Common.linux-x86_64 CONFIG_SITE.Common.linux-xscale_be
corvette:base-7.0.7/configure/os>git diff R7.0.6.1 R7.0.7 CONFIG_SITE.Common.linux-x86_64
diff --git a/configure/os/CONFIG_SITE.Common.linux-x86_64 b/configure/os/CONFIG_SITE.Common.linux-x86_64
index e098b76..b98385f 100644
--- a/configure/os/CONFIG_SITE.Common.linux-x86_64
+++ b/configure/os/CONFIG_SITE.Common.linux-x86_64
@@ -15,10 +15,6 @@
# to inform the system of the shared library location.
-# Use GNU Readline if the header file is installed
-COMMANDLINE_LIBRARY = $(strip $(if $(wildcard \
- $(GNU_DIR)/include/readline/readline.h), READLINE, EPICS))
-
# If libreadline needs additional libraries to be linked with it, try
# uncommenting each of the lines below in turn, starting with the top
# one and working downwards, until the build succeeds. Do a 'make rebuild'
The release notes say:
Automatic COMMANDLINE_LIBRARY w/ newer compilers
When built with a compiler supporting __has_include<>, the presence of the <readline/readline.h> will be used to automatically determine a default value for COMMANDLINE_LIBRARY.
Mingw builds with readline support now link -ltermcap instead of -lcurses.
This should not effect sites which set explicitly set COMMANDLINE_LIBRARY as the only definition in Base now has the form COMMANDLINE_LIBRARY ?= ....
I interpret the first sentence here to mean that the test for COMMANDLINE_LIBRARY is done in the compiler if possible, but it does not say that the previous way of doing
it in the CONFIG_SITE file (for older compilers) has been removed
Does this mean that I now need to edit CONFIG_SITE.Common.linux-x86_64 to manually set COMMANDLINE_LIBRARY?
Thanks,
Mark