Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

<[email protected]> · Mon, 9 Aug 2010 15:49:01 +0100

Hi,

I'm beginning to build our EPICS modules under Windows R3.14.11
(updating from R3.14.10) and I'm running into some problems with
checkRelease in the configure directory.

The way we setup our RELEASE files make use of macro expansion. So for
example the synApps 'std' module we have:

configure\RELEASE:
TEMPLATE_TOP=$(EPICS_BASE)/templates/makeBaseApp/top
WORK=/dls_sw/work/R3.14.11/support
SUPPORT=/dls_sw/prod/R3.14.11/support
SNCSEQ=$(SUPPORT)/seq
ASYN=$(WORK)/asyn
EPICS_BASE=/dls_sw/epics/R3.14.11/base

And for the win32-x86 target we have a RELEASE.win86-x32 which just
override the WORK and SUPPORT macros (saving us a bit of typing and
ensure the same versions of dependencies are consistent across target
platforms):

configure\RELEASE.win86-x32:
TEMPLATE_TOP=$(EPICS_BASE)/templates/makeBaseApp/top
SUPPORT=W:\prod/R3.14.11/support
WORK=W:\work/R3.14.11/support
EPICS_BASE=W:\epics/R3.14.11/base

The problem comes when make builds the configure directory. More
specifically when running the convertRelease.pl checkRelease command:

W:\work\R3.14.11\support\std\configure>mingw32-make
perl W:\epics/R3.14.11/base/bin/win32-x86/makeMakefile.pl O.win32-x86
../..
perl -MExtUtils::Command -e mkpath O.Common
mingw32-make -C O.win32-x86 -f ../Makefile TOP=../.. T_A=win32-x86
install
mingw32-make[1]: Entering directory
`W:/work/R3.14.11/support/std/configure/O.win32-x86'
perl W:\epics/R3.14.11/base/bin/win32-x86/convertRelease.pl checkRelease
/dls_sw/epics/R3.14.11/base: No such file or directory at
W:\epics/R3.14.11/base/bin/win32-x86/convertRelease.pl line 208
mingw32-make[1]: *** [checkRelease] Error 2
mingw32-make[1]: Leaving directory
`W:/work/R3.14.11/support/std/configure/O.win32-x86'
mingw32-make: *** [install.win32-x86] Error 2

The same modules with the same RELEASE files used to build OK on
R3.14.10 - but not anymore.

After playing around with the macros in the RELEASE and
RELEASE.win32-x86 I found that if I don't use the macro expansion (so
delete the WORK= and SUPPORT= macros and put all dependencies with full
paths in both RELEASE files) it works and checkRelease completes. This
leads me to think that the perl scripts (or makefile?) that expand
macros is doing something different from R3.14.10...? However, I have
not been able to trace down any changes in base that seems relevant to
my problem.

If I set the CHECK_RELEASE=NO option, the module build OK but I don't
really want to do that for obvious reasons...

Just for information: We are using the following toolchain:
GNU Make 3.81 from the MinGW package.
ActiveState Perl v5.10.0

Cheers,
Ulrik

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  Ulrik Pedersen               phone: +44(0)1235-778580
  Software Engineer            email: [email protected]

      Diamond Light Source Ltd.
      Rutherford Appleton Laboratory,
      Chilton, Didcot
      Oxfordshire OX11 0DE

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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

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