Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System
http://epics.nsls2.bnl.gov/debian/
Something I have been working on here at BNL is Debian packages for
EPICS. The intent is to support one distribution's (debian stable)
native packaging method well. As an added bonus most other .deb based
distributions also work. Our choice of Deb vs. RPM has largely driven
by the desire to make it usable with the existing systems at NSLS. So
far we have had good results when testing.
I have been somewhat hesitant in announcing this since at the moment
there is only one person besides myself who is working on this. This is
still an experiment in what to include, and how to package it. However,
I have made every effort to do this correctly, and to follow debian's
policies where practical. There is a full list of available packages:
http://epics.nsls2.bnl.gov/debian/list.html
This includes the basic client tools including EDM, (most of) synapps,
developer tools, channel archiver, and RTEMS.
Michael Davidsaver
NSLSII Controls Group
Brookhaven National Lab
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:tech-talk-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Robert Soliday
> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 1:39 PM
> To: tech-talk
> Subject: Re: Building EPICS for multiple Linux distributions
>
> Andrew Johnson wrote:
> > Hi John,
> >
> > On Wednesday 10 March 2010 08:45:01 John Dobbins wrote:
> >> I was wondering if anyone can suggest an approach for building
EPICS
> on
> >> multiple linux distributions (which may have different kernel
> versions,
> >> compiler versions, etc.)
> >>
> >> Does one define new architectures linux-x86-distribution_a
> >> linux-x86-distribution_b?
> >
> > If you find that you do actually need to build different binaries on
> different
> > distributions then that is probably the best way to do it, although
> you should
> > not need to do that for every distribution. We have not had to
> introduce
> > anything like that here at the APS, although our Linux distributions
> are all
> > either Fedora Core or Red-Had Enterprise based. These have so far
> proven to
> > be completely forward compatible, provided we install the
> distribution's
> > relevant compatibility packages to provide the older .so libraries.
> We
> > usually build shared code on the oldest distribution that we need to
> support,
> > and find that it then just works on all our machines running newer
> versions.
> >
> > Note that a different kernel version should almost never require a
> change to
> > user-level application code, although some system utilities do need
> to match
> > particular kernel releases. The Linux distributors seem to have
> solved most
> > compatibility problems, and in my experience if I have a problem
> running
> > binaries on a different machine it usually means it's missing an
RPM.
> >
> > HTH,
> >
> > - Andrew
>
> In the recent past when there were a lot of different flavors of Linux
> floating around here, this was a problem that I had to overcome. What
I
> did was to build EPICS/Base with only static libraries and then build
> our EPICS/Extensions so that they are not linked to any shared
> libraries. To do this I editing epics/extensions/configure/CONFIG with
> the following:
>
> echo SHARED_LIBRARIES=NO >> CONFIG
> echo STATIC_BUILD=YES >> CONFIG
> echo STATIC_LDLIBS_YES= -lc >> CONFIG
> echo STATIC_LDFLAGS_YES= -Wl,-Bstatic -static-libgcc >> CONFIG
> echo LDLIBS_READLINE = -lreadline -lcurses >> CONFIG
>
> There is probably a better place to put these file but for my use this
> was good enough. The end result was completely static binaries that
> could run on any Linux system.
>
> --Bob
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