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Eric Norum <[email protected]> · Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:16:37 -0600

On Feb 23, 2008, at 12:56 PM, Bertrand H.J. Biritz wrote:
Dear Tech-Talk,
so I finally got around to installing more of EPICS on my Mac
(PowerBook G4, OS X 10.5.2). I came across this error message while
trying to compile the Virtual Linac:
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `../../lib/darwin-ppc/libXm.
3.dylib', needed by `build'. Stop.
I checked in MacPorts and OpenMotif provides libXm.4.dylib. When
changing the following in the Makefile located in install/App
LIBLIST_Darwin := libXm.3.dylib
to
LIBLIST_Darwin := libXm.4.dylib
I still get an error message.
When commenting out the line the compilation proceeded without any
errors. Running the program I didn't come across any obvious problems.
So my question is: did I do something "illegal"?

Not really.
The Makefile is trying to build a standalone EPICS package. Since
Motif is not part of the standard OS X distribution the vlinac build
procedure copies the Motif library into the vlinac tree. It appears
that a more recent version of Motif has been released since the vlinac
package was last updated. If you're not planning on creating a
vlinac distribution there's no need to make the copy.
--
Eric Norum <[email protected]>
Advanced Photon Source
Argonne National Laboratory
(630) 252-4793

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

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