I remember I had a problem once with git doing automatic LF->CRLF on
Windows. The solution was to
> git config --global core.autocrlf input
You may or may not want to leave out the --global flag here.
Cheers
Ben
Am 01.05.21 um 02:29 schrieb Freddie Akeroyd - STFC UKRI via Tech-talk:
> Hi Greg,
>
> I tried it just now and it all built and ran OK with no changes. My dbd file also looks to be with the correct line endings
>
> /mnt/c/devel/wsl-epics-base$ file dbd/softIoc.dbd
> dbd/softIoc.dbd: ASCII text
>
> So I think you are right that the issue is line endings. If you run file on the top epics base README what does it give? For me that is also:
>
> /mnt/c/devel/wsl-epics-base$ file README
> README: ASCII text
>
> If yours mentions CRLF etc. did you do the checkout using git from WSL or with windows git? Is a git config file getting picked up from somewhere that sets the line endings incorrectly?
>
> I think the dbd files get generated from a .pod file using perl. If the above README is the correct line endings, then I would assume the .pod files are too. Another possibility is then that the wrong perl program is being picked up - Windows strawberry perl would add CRLF. If you type which perl in WSL does it look right?
>
> Regards,
>
> Freddie
>
> From: Tech-talk <tech-talk-bounces at aps.anl.gov> On Behalf Of Leblanc, Gregory via Tech-talk
> Sent: 30 April 2021 22:21
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> Subject: EPICS 7 base on WSL2
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> Anybody tried running EPICS under WSL? I was just playing around, trying to decide if heading down the EPICS path makes sense for our lab.
>
> I followed the docs at: https://docs.epics-controls.org/projects/how-tos/en/latest/getting-started/installation.html
> I had to edit the EpicsHostArch script to change the line endings from CRLF to LF (or was it vice-versa?). After that, the build went well. I tried to run softIoc to do a test, and got the following:
>
> $ softIoc
> Error: Invalid character 'c'
> at or before "c" in file "/home/leblanc/EPICS/epics-base/bin/linux-x86_64/../../dbd/softIoc.dbd" line 1
> Error: Invalid character 'a'
> Error: Invalid character 'l'
> Error: Invalid character 'c'
> Error: Invalid character 'o'
> Error: Invalid character 'u'
> Error: Invalid character 't'
> Error: Invalid character 'D'
> Error: Invalid character 'O'
> Error: Invalid character 'P'
> Error: Invalid character 'T'
> Error: syntax error
> Error: Failed to load DBD file: /home/leblanc/EPICS/epics-base/bin/linux-x86_64/../../dbd/softIoc.dbd
>
> At which point I decided that was enough for a Friday night. I wonder if it might also be line endings, since file reports:
>
> $ file EPICS/epics-base/dbd/softIoc.dbd
> EPICS/epics-base/dbd/softIoc.dbd: ASCII text, with CRLF, LF line terminators
>
> Am I out to lunch, or is it worth a try next week?
> Greg
>
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