Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Szalata, Zenon M." <[email protected]> · Wed, 5 Sep 2007 12:41:41 -0700

Now since I have my first softIOC working, I thought I add some extensions to my EPICS 3.14.9 installation.  First I tried the Extension Top (new method), which I installed in epics/R3.14.9/extensions, where epics/R3.14.9/base was already configured and installed.  I examined CONFIG, CONFIG_SITE, and RELEASE files in extensions/configure and ran make in extensions/configure according to the instructions in README without errors.  Then I unpacked medm3_1_1.tar.gz into epics/R3.14.9/ and the files got copied into extensions/src as expected.  To build medm I
cd extensions/src/medm
make
And this is what I got:

zms@esaux1 $ make
Makefile:20: ../../../config/CONFIG_EXTENSIONS: No such file or directory
Makefile:22: ../../../config/RULES_DIRS: No such file or directory
gmake: *** No rule to make target `../../../config/RULES_DIRS'.  Stop.
zms@esaux1 $ pwd
/afs/slac.stanford.edu/g/esa/esalib/app1/epics/R3.14.9/extensions/src/medm

It seems that it expects config directory in epics/R3.14.9.  The only config directory is in epics/R3.14.9/base.  Is that the one it expected to find?  Or should there be one in extensions?  Furthermore nowhere could I find CONFIG_EXTENSIONS.  I see such a file exists in older versions of epics, specifically in 3.14.6.  Am I reading the README file incorrectly and consequently skipping some important step?  How could I go around this difficulty to be able to build medm (and other extensions as well.  I also tried probe with the same results)?  I could create a link in extensions to epics/R3.14.9/base/config and copy CONFIG_EXTENSIONS from another version of epics.  Is this safe do?

I also tried Configure Files (Old method) with similar unsatisfactory results.  Please, advise.

Zen

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System