Re: [help] EPICS build no good

[Pavel Masloff <pavel.masloff@gmail.com>]

Hey Andrew!!! Hi Dirk!

It worked :))

This was my first introduction to Epics. Andrew, Dirk, guys! What would you recommend me to do next? I mean, we have a Tektronix oscilloscope at work, namely 
TDS 5054, I guess. And I've read there's a driver written to hook it up to EPICS. How can I do it? Perhaps, I could try your PLC driver, Dirk as the next step in mastering Epics. What do you guys think?

Thanks,

Paul

On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 9:42 PM, Andrew Johnson <anj@aps.anl.gov> wrote:

Hi Pavel,

On 2011-12-05 Pavel Masloff wrote:
>

> D:\>softIoc -h
> Usage: softIoc [-D softIoc.dbd] [-h] [-S] [-a ascf]
>         [-m macro=value,macro2=value2] [-d file.db]
>         [-x prefix] [st.cmd]
> Compiled-in path to softIoc.dbd is:
>         'D:\baseR3.14.12.1\new'/dbd/softIoc.dbd

Forget my last message, the quotes are coming from this Makefile rule:

epicsInstallDir.h:
       $(ECHO) "FINAL_LOCATION=$(FINAL_LOCATION)"
       $(PERL) ../makeInstallDir.pl '$(FINAL_LOCATION)' > $@

On Unix the shell strips out those single quotes, but evidently yours is not
doing so (my win32-x86-mingw build does strip them, but not my win32-x86
build).  You can add two lines to the base/src/softIoc/makeInstallDir.pl file
to fix this:

=== modified file 'src/softIoc/makeInstallDir.pl'
--- src/softIoc/makeInstallDir.pl       2010-09-27 22:42:42 +0000
+++ src/softIoc/makeInstallDir.pl       2011-12-05 18:33:24 +0000
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@
 my $path = shift;

 $path =~ s/\\/\\\\/gx;
+$path =~ s/^'//x;
+$path =~ s/'$//x;

 print "/* THIS IS A GENERATED FILE. DO NOT EDIT! */\n",
      "\n",

I will add this change to the 3.14.12.2 release of Base.

HTH,

- Andrew
--
Optimization is the process of taking something that works and
replacing it with something that almost works, but costs less.
-- Roger Needham

-- 
Sincerely,

Pavel Maslov, MSc
R&D Institute for Electro-Physical Apparatus


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