Naming restriction in configure/RELEASE

["Hu, Yong via Tech-talk" <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

Hello everyone,

I am building an IOC application named ‘test6’ based on the classical command ‘makeBaseApp -t …’.  When I put the following line in ‘test6/configure/RELEASE’ to include an external support module, surprisingly the build failed. Pay attention to the name ‘MODULE1’ which contains a digit.
MODULE1 = /nsls2/users/yhu/modules/elauncherSupport

Here is the error message:
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make rebuild
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/usr/bin/g++  -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_DEFAULT_SOURCE         -DUSE_TYPED_RSET   -D_X86_64_  -DUNIX  -Dlinux      -O3 -g   -Wall      -mtune=generic      -m64  -I. -I../O.Common -I. -I. -I.. -I../../../include/compiler/gcc -I../../../include/os/Linux -I../../../include    -I/usr/lib/epics/include/compiler/gcc -I/usr/lib/epics/include/os/Linux -I/usr/lib/epics/include        -MM -MF test6Main.d  ../test6Main.cpp

Creating dbd file test6.dbd

perl -CSD /usr/lib/epics/bin/linux-x86_64/dbdExpand.pl   -I. -I.. -I../O.Common -I../../../dbd -I/usr/lib/epics/dbd -o test6.dbd base.dbd asSupport.dbd devIocStats.dbd caPutLog.dbd reccaster.dbd system.dbd elauncherSupport.dbd xxxSupport.dbd dbSubExample.dbd devtest6Version.dbd test6Hello.dbd initTrace.dbd PVAServerRegister.dbd qsrv.dbd

dbdExpand.pl: Can't find file 'elauncherSupport.dbd'

  while reading 'elauncherSupport.dbd' to create 'test6.dbd'

  Your Makefile may need this dependency rule:

    $(COMMON_DIR)/test6.dbd: $(COMMON_DIR)/elauncherSupport.dbd

dbdExpand.pl: Exiting due to errors
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If I change ‘MODULE1’ to ‘MODULE’, then it worked as expected. And I see the path ‘-I/nsls2/users/yhu/modules/elauncherSupport/dbd’ is included in ‘perl -CSD /usr/lib/epics/bin/linux-x86_64/dbdExpand.pl’.
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make build

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/usr/bin/g++  -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_DEFAULT_SOURCE         -DUSE_TYPED_RSET   -D_X86_64_  -DUNIX  -Dlinux      -O3 -g   -Wall      -mtune=generic      -m64  -I. -I../O.Common -I. -I. -I.. -I../../../include/compiler/gcc -I../../../include/os/Linux -I../../../include    -I/usr/lib/epics/include/compiler/gcc -I/usr/lib/epics/include/os/Linux -I/usr/lib/epics/include        -MM -MF test6Main.d  ../test6Main.cpp

Creating dbd file test6.dbd

perl -CSD /usr/lib/epics/bin/linux-x86_64/dbdExpand.pl   -I. -I.. -I../O.Common -I../../../dbd -I/nsls2/users/yhu/modules/elauncherSupport/dbd -I/usr/lib/epics/dbd -o test6.dbd base.dbd asSupport.dbd devIocStats.dbd caPutLog.dbd reccaster.dbd system.dbd elauncherSupport.dbd xxxSupport.dbd dbSubExample.dbd devtest6Version.dbd test6Hello.dbd initTrace.dbd PVAServerRegister.dbd qsrv.dbd

perl -CSD /usr/lib/epics/bin/linux-x86_64/registerRecordDeviceDriver.pl   -I. -I.. -I../O.Common -I../../../dbd -I/nsls2/users/yhu/modules/elauncherSupport/dbd -I/usr/lib/epics/dbd    -o test6_registerRecordDeviceDriver.cpp ../O.Common/test6.dbd test6_registerRecordDeviceDriver /nsls2/users/yhu/test6

/usr/bin/g++  -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_DEFAULT_SOURCE         -DUSE_TYPED_RSET   -D_X86_64_  -DUNIX  -Dlinux      -O3 -g   -Wall      -mtune=generic      -m64  -I. -I../O.Common -I. -I. -I.. -I../../../include/compiler/gcc -I../../../include/os/Linux -I../../../include    -I/usr/lib/epics/include/compiler/gcc -I/usr/lib/epics/include/os/Linux -I/usr/lib/epics/include        -MM -MF test6_registerRecordDeviceDriver.d  test6_registerRecordDeviceDriver.cpp

perl -CSD /usr/lib/epics/bin/linux-x86_64/genVersionHeader.pl   -t ../../.. -N test6VERSION -V "" ../O.Common/test6Version.h

Keeping VCS header ../O.Common/test6Version.h

    test6VERSION = "2cf4d364586c5e06a964-dirty"

Installing dbd file ../../../dbd/xxxSupport.dbd

mkdir ../../../dbd

Installing created dbd file ../../../dbd/test6.dbd
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So it seems there is a naming restriction in configure/RELEASE. Is this a bug or a feature? I am using Base-R7.0.5 if the version matters.

Cheers,
Yong