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Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> · Mon, 1 Dec 2014 12:22:46 -0600

Thanks guys. I committed Michael's version and added a patch to the
3.14.12 Known Problems page.

In RHEL 6 /usr/share/perl5/Extutils/xsubpp exists as a soft-link to
/usr/bin/xsubpp, while earlier Perl versions have it only in Perl's
ExtUtils directory.

- Andrew

On 12/01/2014 07:23 AM, Michael Davidsaver wrote:
> A more (OS) portable way to accomplish this
> 
> XSUBPP = $(firstword $(wildcard /usr/bin/xsubpp $(EXTUTILS)/xsubpp))
> 
> 
> On 12/01/2014 05:43 AM, Torsten Bögershausen wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I tried to compile EPICS under "Scientific Linux release 7.0 (Nitrogen)"
>>
>> It failed, because xsubpp is no longer here:
>> /usr/share/perl5/Extutils/xsubpp
>> but found here:
>> /usr/bin/xsubpp
>>
>> Thanks to Götz, who helped me debugging the error and finding a fix.
>>
>> For now I added a shell script to see where xsubpp is.
>> The following applies to base-3.15.1-rc1 (but the problem is in older
>> bases as well)
>>
>> Does this sound reasonable, or are there better ways ?
>>
>>
>>
>> diff --git a/src/ca/client/perl/Makefile b/src/ca/client/perl/Makefile
>> index 6ae32dd..516e494 100644
>> --- a/src/ca/client/perl/Makefile
>> +++ b/src/ca/client/perl/Makefile
>> @@ -54,10 +54,11 @@ include $(TOP)/configure/RULES
>>  
>>  ifdef T_A
>>    EXTUTILS = $(shell $(PERL) ../perlConfig.pl privlib)/ExtUtils
>> +  XSUBPP = $(shell if test -x /usr/bin/xsubpp ; then echo
>> /usr/bin/xsubpp ; else echo $(EXTUTILS)/xsubpp ; fi)
>>  
>>    %.c: ../%.xs
>>         $(RM) $@ $@_new
>> -       $(PERL) $(EXTUTILS)/xsubpp -typemap $(EXTUTILS)/typemap $< >
>> $@_new && $(MV) $@_new $@
>> +       $(PERL) $(XSUBPP) -typemap $(EXTUTILS)/typemap $< > $@_new &&
>> $(MV) $@_new $@
>>  
>>    $(INSTALL_PERL_MODULES)/$(PERL_ARCHPATH)/%: %
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>

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