Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Hi Florencio,

On 2011-11-09 Cid, Florencio A wrote:
> Thanks for the help, everyone!!  I can live with manually edit
>  configure/RELEASE as a temporary work-around.   When will the revised fix
>  to makeBaseApp.pl (mentioned below) be available?

I committed the fix to the 3.14 branch yesterday, and have just created a 
patch which is now available through the Known Problems page at
   http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/base/R3-14/12-docs/KnownProblems.html
The fix will also be included in the 3.14.12.2 release that we're currently 
working on which is due out before Christmas.

> Also, should this thread (which didn't make it to tech-talk) be added?  Not
> sure I'm the one to make the decision.

Done with this reply.

> Thanks again, everyone!!
> 
> Flo
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Johnson [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2011 4:35 PM
> To: Janet Anderson
> Cc: Mark Rivers; [email protected]; Cid, Florencio A
> Subject: Re: [Fwd: RE: IOC make error]
> 
> Hi Janet,
> 
> On 2011-11-08 you wrote:
> > Is the following still true?  From makeBaseApp.pl:
> >
> > -b base  Set the location of EPICS base (full path)
> >           If not specified, base path is taken from configure/RELEASE
> >           If configure does not exist, from environment
> >           If not found in environment, from makeBaseApp.pl location
> 
> That's what the code does:
> 
>     # Locate epics_base
>     my ($command) = UnixPath($0);
>     if ($opt_b) {
>         # first choice is -b base
> 	$epics_base = UnixPath($opt_b);
>     } elsif ($release{"EPICS_BASE"}) {
>         # second choice is configure/RELEASE
> 	$epics_base = UnixPath($release{"EPICS_BASE"});
> 	$epics_base =~s|^\$\(TOP\)/||;
>     } elsif ($ENV{EPICS_MBA_BASE}) {
>         # third choice is env var EPICS_MBA_BASE
>         $epics_base = UnixPath($ENV{EPICS_MBA_BASE});
>     } elsif ($command =~ m|/bin/|) {
>         # assume script was run with full path to base
> 	$epics_base = $command;
> 	$epics_base =~ s|^(.*)/bin/.*makeBaseApp.*|$1|;
>     }
>     $epics_base and -d "$epics_base" or Cleanup(1, "Can't find EPICS
>  base"); $app_epics_base = LocalPath($epics_base);
>     $app_epics_base =~ s|^\.\.|\$(TOP)/..|;
> 
> The $app_epics_base value is then used when instantiating the template file
> for configure/RELEASE.
> 
> Mark Rivers wrote:
> > The question is why did makeBaseApp use C:/EPICS/base?  I thought it
> > might have to do with how you ran makeBaseApp.pl.  I thought running it
> > by typing C:/EPICS/bin/cygwin-x86/makeBaseApp.pl would produce
> > EPICS_BASE as you saw, but running by typing
> > /cygdrive/c/EPICS/base/makeBaseApp.pl would get what you want.  But I
> > just tested this, and it does not seem to be the case, even running
> > it as /cygdrive/c/... I still get configure/RELEASE having
> > EPICS_BASE=c:/EPICS/base-3.14.11.
> 
> The LocalPath() call shown on the penultimate line above is converting the
> path string into a Windows-style path when it shouldn't be.  Hmm, we
>  removed that conversion from the tools/EPICS/Path.pm file back in May, but
>  apparently not from its duplicate in makeBaseApp.pl — this is definitely a
>  bug which I will fix (properly).
> 
> Thanks all for tracking this down.
> 
> - Andrew

- Andrew
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