Re: makeBaseApp

[Janet Anderson <jba@aps.anl.gov>]

You can build at the DOS prompt, you do not need to use sh.  Are you 
using GNU make from mingw?
The cygwin make cannot handle Windows paths  with a drive letter. Either 
one of the following
should work in your RELEASE file:
   EPICS_BASE=D:/EPICS/base
   EPICS_BASE=D:\\EPICS\\base

Janet

Zhichu Chen wrote:
> Hi, there's a silly question: how to disable the path conversion
> in makeBaseApp?
>
> I'm using EPICS under MinGW+MSYS. The "sh" can recognize
> the DOS path, but somehow it fails in "make".
>
> Yes, if I set a path using the DOS version, it just can't find
> the executable files. I guess maybe the colon symbol is
> used for some "special" case, so anything like C:\epics
> will cause unexpected outcomes.
>
> Here's the thing, the makeBaseApp.pl will use UnixPath,
> LocalPath, I don't know, to convert the path and write the
> base's path to RELEASE, and I always get like
> EPICS_BASE=D:\EPICS\base
> even I use "-b \epics\base" option. One thing lead to another,
> perl could not be found during the make.
>
> So, can I use some magic option to make it?
>
>