Re: makeBaseApp

[Zhichu Chen <zhichu.chen@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Janet Anderson <jba@aps.anl.gov> wrote:
> You can build at the DOS prompt, you do not need to use sh.  Are you using
> GNU make from mingw?
No, not really:
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$ make -v
GNU Make 3.81
Copyright (C) 2006  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

This program built for i686-pc-msys
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It's from MSYS, the mingw version of make may be able to handle the path but
it's too slow on my pc (I don't know why). So I think I should get the mingw
make a chance.
> 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
I can modify the variable but I really hope there's some magic switch that I can
use to output the exact path I entered. Hence, I can make some alias like:
export EPICS_BASE=/epics/base/
alias makeBaseApp="perl
${EPICS_BASE}bin/${EPICS_HOST_ARCH}/makeBaseApp.pl -b ${EPICS_BASE}"

Thank you for your attention.
>
> 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?
>>
>>
>
>



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