Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Chip Piller <[email protected]> · Thu, 18 Nov 2004 11:30:44 -0500

Hi,

OK, I tried your suggestion to comment out the last line in
base/configure/os/CONFIG_SITE.Common.linux-x86

and now...success! (using gcc 3.3.4).
I did not know about the readline package requirement, where do I find
this?
What I did was download epics base and also latest CVS from the
aps.anl.gov/epics site, tar xzvf the file, read the build instructions
in documentation/README.1st.
I have gcc and g++ in my path, I set the EPICS_HOST_ARCH environment
variable, I ran command "make clean uninstall" followed by "make".
It is interesting that the build succeeded without the readline package
using earlier gcc.
Thanks,
Chip Piller
Robert Soliday wrote:

I do not believe it has anything to do with your compiler. It appears
that you do not have the readline package installed. You can still get
EPICS Base to compile without it if you edit
base/configure/os/CONFIG_SITE.Common.linux-x86 and comment out the last
line where it sets COMMANDLINE_LIBRARY = READLINE
--Bob Soliday

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System