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Subject: Re: Error compiling waveProc1-0 on base 3.14.12
From: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 05:02:31 +1100
Hi Andrew,

Thanks for the info. I added the INSTALL_LOCATION variable in configure/CONFIG file of waveProc and worked fine.
Cheers,
  Juan Carlos.

On 23/12/2010, at 12:23 AM, Andrew Johnson wrote:

> Hi Juan,
> 
>> The problem is because of the following
>> definition in my RELEASE file (we need to install in a different
>> location relative to TOP):
>> 
>> INSTALL_LOCATION_APP=$(TOP)/../install
>> 
>> Apparently Release.pm does not like $(TOP) in the INSTALL_LOCATION_APP
>> variable. All the other support modules we are using (asyn, sncseq,
>> modbus) have a similar definition and Release.pm does not complain. Do
>> you know why waveProc is somewhat different to asyn or sncseq?
> 
> You're not supposed to use $(TOP) at all in a RELEASE file; RELEASE is special in the EPICS build system and should not be used for setting any variables other than pointers to other support applications.  The right place to set other variables is in the module's configure/CONFIG_SITE file instead (or the related architecture-specific files).
> 
> The waveProc application hasn't been updated in a while and might have some rather old versions of the configure/* files, so you might want to try replacing everything in its configure directory with the contents of <base>/templates/makeBaseApp/top/configure instead (especially if the comments in the existing files contradict what I've written above).
> 
> HTH,
> 
> - Andrew

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Australia Telescope National Facility
CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science
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