Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Emmanuel Mayssat <[email protected]> · Wed, 05 Apr 2006 10:48:43 -0700

John,
Create you own menuScan.dbd in your ${MY_DIRECTORY}/dbd directory.
Then edit the makefile in your driver source and add a new USR_DBDFLAGS
directive.

# Used by dbExpand to look for dbd files
USR_DBDFLAGS += -I ${MY_DIRECTORY}/dbd
USR_DBDFLAGS += -I ${EPICS_BASE}/dbd

Note that the order of the directories is important.

--
Emmanuel

On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 11:25 -0500, Andrew Johnson wrote:
> john sinclair wrote:
> > What's the correct file to edit to add a scan period. I have narrowed things 
> > down to the following two:
> > 
> > ...base/dbd/menuScan.dbd
> > 
> > ...base/src/db/menuScan.dbd
> 
> The base/dbd directory is the install location where the file from 
> src/db gets installed to, so you don't want to edit anything inside 
> base/dbd or your changes will be lost when you next rebuild base.
> 
> Note however that you can also override the scan periods in an IOC 
> application by just providing your own modified copy of menuScan.dbd, 
> which will be found before the base one.
> 
> - Andrew

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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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