Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Marty Kraimer <[email protected]> · Mon, 10 Aug 1998 09:35:44 -0500

Steve Lewis wrote:
> 
> > I am trying to compile CDEV on Linux (RH5.1) with EPICS 3.13Beta12, and
> > have run into a problem.  It complains about the constant
> > TS_EPOCH_SEC_PAST_1970 being undefined.  Sure enough, when I examine
> > tsDefs.h from Beta11, it's there, and in Beta12 it isn't.  In fact,
> > I can't find that particular constant anywhere in Beta 12. Any
> > thoughts on how to handle this now?
> 
>         Well, ar/ar/arCSCheck.c failed to build looking
>         for TS_EPOCH_YEAR in tsDefs.h as well.  Since it was in
>         an "assert" statement I just commented it out!
> 
>         It was tempting to just put the missing #defines back in.
> 
>         There is a lot of non-APS code out there which has
>         accumulated much dependency...
> 
> --Steve

This is when happens when information that should be private is made
public. This makes it harder to have code that can evolve without
breaking other code that uses it.

Marty Kraimer

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System