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D Peter Siddons <[email protected]> · Thu, 10 Jan 2013 14:19:18 -0500

Thank you all for your suggestions. Keith's (below) provided the answer.

Editing those entries in the config made everything work.

Pete.

On 01/10/2013 12:50 PM, [email protected] wrote:

Dear Kate, Hinko
     I agree with Andrew here.  The solution is to edit the CONFIG_SITE
files.  I have just been through getting EPICS building on 64-bit
Ubuntu12.
I had to make the following changes (see attached small patch files)

Change X11_LIB location in configure/os/CONFIG_SITE.linux-x86_64.linux-x8_64
  (extensions_config_Ubuntu12.patch)

Correct probe1_1_7_0 Makefile to group X* libraries correctly by Motif/X11
  (probe1_1_7_0-Ubuntu12.patch)
  [ old versions of other extensions may need this as well ]

Correct Makefiles for SDDS, SDSSepics 2.11 to handle default SOA behavior
  (got these from SDDS maintainer - may be added to newer releases)
   (SDDS.2.11-Ubuntu12.patch, SDDSepics.2.11-Ubuntu12.patch)

All but the config patch should were for older Linux releases as well

    Keith Thorne
    LIGO CDS Software Engineer

Kate, Hinko,

On 2013-01-10 Hinko Kocevar wrote:

ln -snf /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXt.a /usr/lib/libXt.a

On 01/10/2013 04:18 AM, Kate Feng wrote:

ln -f -s /usr/lib/.../libxt.a libXt.a

It should /never/ be necessary to create soft-links like that, you just
have
to edit your extensions/configure/CONFIG_SITE file or if you're sharing a
build tree between multiple architectures the appropriate
extensions/configure/os/CONFIG_SITE.<arch>.<arch> files to tell the build
system where the relevant libraries can be found.  Once you have correctly
set
the X11_LIB and/or MOTIF_LIB variables (and the _INC variables if
necessary)
for one product (say medm) it is then correct for any other products (say
StripTool) that you build in the same extensions tree.

This should be the more friendly solution that Hinko was asking for.

- Andrew
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D. Peter Siddons
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Photon Sciences Directorate,
Brookhaven National Laboratory
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