Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Zhao Zhuo <[email protected]> · Fri, 3 Sep 2004 17:31:58 +0800

Hello, Mr Ralph Lange!
Thank you for your reply! I build base3.14.5 because I want to build gateway2.0.0. You know, at first I want to build gateway1.3.3 based base3.13.8. But you  recommend me build the latest gateway2.0.0 based base3.14.5. However our united version is  base3.13.8, our developer have done a lot of thing, we didn't want to update base version so that it will make some unknown trouble for them. I read from webpage that we used epics3.13 for our application but still can use gateway 2.x built with epics 3.14 as a gateway. 
I know little about gateway tool. How do you think it? I mean, whether or not we have the necessity to build it. Can you  give me about it?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ralph Lange" <[email protected]>
To: "Zhao Zhuo" <[email protected]>
Cc: "EPICS Tech-Talk" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 4:29 PM
Subject: Re: building base3.14.5

>   >> Zhao Zhuo wrote:
>   >> I'm building base3.14.5 for vxworks-ppc604 on solaris 8 SUN Workstation with gcc.
>   >> However it showed the following error,why?
> 
>   >> [...]
> 
> >>>>> Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> writes:
> 
>   > Your errors are actually from building one of the host tools for your
>   > solaris-sparc-gnu target, and probably mean that you're going to have to
>   > upgrade the gcc and g++ version on the Solaris workstation.  This is
>   > nothing to do with vxWorks at all, it's related to the compiler that
>   > builds code to run on Solaris.  The upgrade will not cost any money, but
>   > will have to be done by your Solaris systems administrator.
> 
>   > What is the version of your current g++ on your workstation?  Run this
>   > command and send us the output:
> 
>   >   /usr/local/bin/g++ --version
> 
>   > I don't know what the earliest version of gcc that will work is, at APS
>   > we're now using gcc 3.2 or later on all our systems.
> 
> Even though it may not be related to your gcc problem on Solaris:
> 
> The latest released version of EPICS base is 3.14.6 - if you do not have
> a particular important reason to build a specific version, you should
> try to avoid starting something with old versions of things.
> 
> I would suggest switching to the latest release (available from the
> EPICS web site at APS). It may not solve your gcc problems, but you
> probably avoid other issues in 3.14.5 that have been fixed.
> 
> Ralph

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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