Re: Problem building epics base-3.14.6 with recent gcc on linux

[Chip Piller <piller@sns.gov>]

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