Re: Using the EPICS Build/Make system to build kernel modules for linux

[Michael Davidsaver <mdavidsaver@bnl.gov>]

On 02/19/2015 08:47 AM, Ralph Lange wrote:
> On 18/02/2015 18:18, Jameson Graef Rollins wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 12 2015, "Williams Jr., Ernest L."
>> <ernesto@slac.stanford.edu> wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> I would like to hi-jack the EPICS Make system framework to build
>>> kernel modules.
>> I'm so sorry, but I feel compelled to speak out that the EPICS build
>> system is one of the more obscure, convoluted, and unfriendly to work
>> with as I have seen.  It makes packaging EPICS and related software
>> extremely difficult.

This isn't a revelation :)  As solely Make based build systems go I
consider it to be on the better end of the spectrum.  Of course this is
really a commentary on how hard Make makes making.

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> [1] http://epics.nsls2.bnl.gov/debian/
> [2] https://github.com/epicsdeb

I'll second this.  It would be great to have you involved.


Also, you might be interested in:

https://github.com/mdavidsaver/cmake4epics

Which is a side project I work on a little each time I've have a Make
related lost time accident.  (I find the experience of debugging
Makefiles similar to dropping something heavy on my foot)


Michael