Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> · Fri, 3 Oct 2008 15:30:59 -0500

Hi Lewis,

On Friday 03 October 2008 14:25:49 J. Lewis Muir wrote:
>
> Inspecting /usr/bin/xsubpp shows that it starts with
>
> #!./miniperl
>
> I think this must be a bug with the perl installation on RHEL WS 3.

Actually I think it was a bug in Perl that appears to have been fixed by 
5.8.4; newer versions seem to insert the prologue automatically when they 
install the xsubpp script.

> After this, it built correctly.  I then got your post to core-talk with
> a related change to the Makefile to try to avoid this problem.  I
> reverted my change to /usr/bin/xsubpp and applied that patch and I can
> now build successfully even with a buggy /usr/bin/xsubpp.

Thanks for confirming that fix works.

> I'm getting the following warning messages when compiling src/cap5:
>
> rm -f ../CA.html
> podchecker ../CA.pm && pod2html --infile=../CA.pm --outfile=../CA.html
> *** WARNING: node
> 'http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/base/R3-14/9-docs/CAref.html' contains
> non-escaped | or / at line 596 in file ../CA.pm
> *** WARNING: multiple occurrence of link target 'value' at line - in
> file ../CA.pm
> *** WARNING: multiple occurrence of link target 'COUNT' at line - in
> file ../CA.pm
> *** WARNING: multiple occurrence of link target 'TYPE' at line - in file

I suspect that's an issue with the version of podchecker and/or pod2html on 
your system, I don't see those warnings here with Perl 5.8.4, 5.8.8 or 5.10.  
It may also be that I'm using POD syntax that superseeds 5.8.0; if your 
CA.html file is broken you can always use the version that's on the R3.14.10 
webpage.

- Andrew
-- 
Talk is cheap. Show me the code. -- Linus Torvalds

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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