Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System
Compile of synApps on Ubuntu and other Debian systems has been
successful in the past. I use it for some years on Linux Mint (releases
17-20) and on Raspberry Pi.
Since you encounter a firm, reproducible problem (and the answer is not
obvious yet), you might consider a slightly different approach, using
the assemble_synApps.sh shell script.
Follow this guide (for the RaspberryPi since it may work for Ubuntu as
well):
https://cmd-response.readthedocs.io/en/latest/epics/rpi_epics.html#install-synapps
The guide was written with an install of EPICS base 7.0.3.1. 7.0.4 is
available so use that instead. https://epics.anl.gov/base/R7-0/4.php
You will need these libraries:
sudo apt-get install re2c
# you _might_ already have these installed, but to be sure...
sudo apt-get install libnet-dev libpcap-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev
For Area Detector, you will need:
sudo apt install libx11-dev libxext-dev
Note that for Ubuntu (and other linux OS variants), several synApps
modules can be commented out of the build since they will not run on
linux. An obvious example is VME. The guide shows a drop-down
"Details" icon with the pattern I use.
Hope this helps,
Pete
On 8/19/2020 12:25 AM, Randall Cayford via Tech-talk wrote:
> Nothing is printed.
> It happens on every Ubuntu machine we try to install on.
>
>> On Aug 18, 2020, at 6:42 PM, Michael Davidsaver <mdavidsaver at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 8/18/20 2:45 PM, Randall Cayford via Tech-talk wrote:
>>> We must be missing something obvious but synApps won’t install on Ubuntu for us. The problem step is make release hangs forever. Some problem with perl but we don’t know what.
>>>
>>> Steps:
>>> install ubuntu 18 LTS
>>> Install EPICS7
>>> Unzip the synApps (6_1) tar file and edit config files
>>> run “make release”
>>> Wait forever….
>>
>> What, if anything, is printed while you are waiting?
>>
>>> Exact same procedure installs fine on Centos 7. Since there isn’t a lot of chatter about this, it seems like we’re missing a step somewhere. Anyone know what we need to do?
>>
>> I occasionally have builds get stuck in infinite loops,
>> repeating the same set of steps until I interrupt.
>> So far this hasn't happen often or predictably enough
>> to do much troubleshooting.
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