Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> · Tue, 13 Aug 2013 11:42:52 -0500

Hi Pavel,

On 08/13/2013 10:20 AM, Pavel Maslov wrote:

Do you mean, although I am building my support module with base.dbd
included, I may provide my own  *_registerRecordDeviceDriver.cpp file
(corrected one - comment out everything  related to base.dbd) and get
away with it?

I believe so, but that does add a maintenance burden that you need to be

aware of whenever you upgrade. New versions of EPICS Base are very

likely to require that you recreate that .cpp file again from scratch

(because the C++ code generated by the registerRecordDeviceDriver.pl

script can change without notice), and new versions of external modules

such as Asyn will probably change the DBD file and thus need updates.

I would strongly recommend that you document what you're doing very

clearly for your successors or your future self, and maybe explain

exactly how to switch back to using standard EPICS builds too.

- Andrew
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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