RE: Why should I care about breakpoint table monotonicity?

[Emmanuel Mayssat <emayssat@outlook.com>]

> In 3.14.x the same code that loads DBD files into the IOC is used in the

> dbExpand program, so it does the same checking. You can give dbExpand a
> -b flag to disable the monotonicity check though. Put
> DBEXPAND += -b
> into your Makefile to add that flag to all calls to dbExpand (there is a

Not in 3.14.11...

epics2@cls1dev11 $ make
make -C O.linux-x86 -f ../Makefile TOP=../../.. T_A=linux-x86 install
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/cls1fs/epics/2/git/epics-iocs/cls1/drv/records/bpt/O.linux-x86'
perl /home/local/epics/base/3.14.11/bin/linux-x86/makeIncludeDbd.pl bptTypeJdegC.dbd bptTypeKdegC.dbd bptTypeKdegX.dbd ../O.Common/recordsBptInclude.dbd
Expanding dbd
/home/local/epics/base/3.14.11/bin/linux-x86/dbExpand -b  -I . -I .. -I ../../../dbd -I/home/local/epics/base/3.14.11/dbd -I/home/local/epics/extras/3_14_11-20100623_104822/asyn/4-12-20110127_113101/dbd -I/home/local/epics/extras/3_14_11-20100623_104822/autosave/4-5-20110127_112910/dbd -I/home/local/epics/extras/3_14_11-20100623_104822/calc/2-7-20110127_113028/dbd -I/home/local/epics/extras/3_14_11-20100623_104822/genSub/1-6a-20110127_112851/dbd -I/home/local/epics/extras/3_14_11-20100623_104822/seq/2-0-12-20110127_112811/dbd -I/home/local/epics/extras/3_14_11-20100623_104822/sscan/2-6-5-20110127_112958/dbd -I/home/local/epics/extras/3_14_11-20100623_104822/stream/2-4a-20110127_113215/dbd -o ../O.Common/recordsBpt.dbd ../O.Common/recordsBptInclude.dbd
dbExpand: Unknown option '-b'
Usage:
        dbExpand -Ipath -ooutfile -S macro=value file1.dbd file2.dbd ...
Specifying any path will replace the default of '.'
make[1]: *** [../O.Common/recordsBpt.dbd] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/cls1fs/epics/2/git/epics-iocs/cls1/drv/records/bpt/O.linux-x86'
make: *** [install.linux-x86] Error 2

I tried -d, then I check the source code of dbExpand.
I can't find the code for such an option.
Am I missing something?

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