Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Marty Kraimer <[email protected]> · Fri, 17 Oct 1997 08:14:15 -0500

Dale L. Brewe wrote:
> 
> I recently built epics 3.13beta11 for solaris and am trying to get going
> with gdct313, which I obtained prebuilt from the solaris platform
> developers site.
> However, the first step seems to be a doozy. When I start up gdct313 in
> <epics base>/dbd, I get the following error messages:
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Using dbd include path /usr/local/epics/3.13/base/dbd
> Error "menu not found"  Last token ")"
> input line:             menu(menuScan)
>    in: path "/usr/local/epics/3.13/base/dbd"  file dbCommon.dbd line 22
>    in: file /usr/local/epics/3.13/base/dbd/dbCommonRecord.dbd line 2
> 
> Error "syntax error"  Last token ""
> input line:             menu(menuScan)
>    in: path "/usr/local/epics/3.13/base/dbd"  file dbCommon.dbd line 22
>    in: file /usr/local/epics/3.13/base/dbd/dbCommonRecord.dbd line 2
> 
> db_parse returned -1
> Read failed: dbd file /usr/local/epics/3.13/base/dbd/dbCommonRecord.dbd
> Read dbd file: /usr/local/epics/3.13/base/dbd/menuGlobal.dbd
> Read dbd file: /usr/local/epics/3.13/base/dbd/base.dbd
> Error "syntax error"  Last token "field"
> input line:     field(NAME,DBF_STRING) {
>    in: file /usr/local/epics/3.13/base/dbd/dbCommon.dbd line 1
> 
> db_parse returned -1
> Read failed: dbd file /usr/local/epics/3.13/base/dbd/dbCommon.dbd
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> After this I get normal looking reports that it has read the rest of the
> .dbd files. I would appreciate a hint as to what is going on here.
> 

You must use a completely expanded dbd file, i.e. it must include 
definitions for all menus and record types used by any record instances.
gdct313 (and also dct313) use the static database access library.
These error message are coming from this library.

If you are starting with 3.13 run makeBaseApp and create the example
application.

In the directory 

exampleApp/Db

run gdct313.

The dbd file you want to load is

dbd/exampleApp.dbd

Marty Kraimer

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System