Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Williams Jr., Ernest L." <[email protected]> · Thu, 22 Dec 2011 11:14:49 -0800

Awesome :)
Can you also provide a patch on the known problems page of the website?

Happy Holidays,
Ernest

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On Dec 22, 2011, at 9:38, "Janet Anderson" <[email protected]> wrote:

> I committed the change to add -I$(COMMON_DIR) to the DBFLAGS definition. 
> The change will be in the next base release. Thanks.
> 
> Janet
> 
> 
> Allison, Stephanie wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> The following line was removed from RULES.Db sometime between epics base 3.14.8.2 and 3.14.11:
>> 
>> DBFLAGS += -I$(COMMON_DIR)
>> 
>> where
>> COMMON_DIR = ../O.Common
>> 
>> This means that a database built from a substitutions file that depends on a database already built in O.Common will fail.
>> 
>> For instance, if the Makefile looks like this:
>> 
>> ...
>> DB += aabb.db
>> DB += ccdd.db
>> ...
>> 
>> and the directory contains:
>> aabb.substitutions
>> ccdd.substitutions
>> and
>> ccdd.substitutions includes aabb.db,  the build will now fail.
>> 
>> Can the "DBFLAGS += -I$(COMMON_DIR)" be added back to RULES.Db?  If no, is there another solution to this problem?  Other than creating subdirectories under Db and building in the proper order.
>> 
>> Thank you,
>> Stephanie Allison
>> 
>> 

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