Re: medm build

[D Peter Siddons <siddons@bnl.gov>]

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, keith.thorne@ligo.org 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
> > --
> > There is no such thing as a free lunch.  When invited for lunch,
> > it is best to check if you are there to eat, or to be eaten.
> > -- Clive Robinson
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D. Peter Siddons
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