RE: stream device get started?

[Mark Rivers <rivers@cars.uchicago.edu>]

I apologize, I didn’t read carefully that you were running the makeSupport.pl to create the application.  I get the same error as you when I try to run that script on Windows, it seems that the Perl script does not understand Windows path syntax.

 

You can run the script on Linux and then just copy the tree to your Windows machine until we get that fixed.

 

Mark

 

 

From: Alireza Panna [mailto:apanna1236@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2014 10:32 AM
To: Mark Rivers
Cc: Ralph Lange; EPICS Tech-Talk
Subject: Re: stream device get started?

 

Hello all, 

Yes, it is true that EPICS_HOST_ARCH should be set in the environment which I do. Now correct me If I am wrong, but I was under the impression that the makeSupport perl script in ../aysn-4-23/bin/<arch>/ creates the device support directories i.e the configure/release files and so on and then you run makeBase.pl to create the application.  This is where my problem is, because when I run makeSupport.pl, I get the error mentioned in the first email. I might be wrong since I am fairly new to the EPICS community. 

Thank you 

 

Regards,

Ali

 

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Alireza Panna

University of Maryland, College Park

 

On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 7:15 AM, Mark Rivers <rivers@cars.uchicago.edu> wrote:

Ralph is right, only ASYN should be defined in configure/RELEASE, EPICS_HOST_ARCH should be defined as an environment variable.

Mark


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From: tech-talk-bounces@aps.anl.gov [tech-talk-bounces@aps.anl.gov] on behalf of Ralph Lange [ralph.lange@gmx.de]
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2014 2:35 AM
To: EPICS Tech-Talk
Cc: Alireza Panna
Subject: Re: stream device get started?

On 01/09/2014 21:00, Mark Rivers wrote:
>> EPICS_HOST_ARCH  env var is set and so is ASYN.
> These should not be set as environment variables, they should be defined in the configure/RELEASE file of your application.

Well...

While definitions of external modules like ASYN should always go into
the configure/RELEASE file (it is named RELEASE because it defines the
exact releases of external modules that you are using), EPICS_HOST_ARCH
is meant to be set in the environment.
While setting it in configure/RELEASE might work, the host architecture
is rather a property of the host than a definition of an external module.

As soon as you put your sources on a network drive and compile it for
multiple host architectures inside the same structure, setting the host
architecture in configure/RELEASE is obviously not a good idea.

~Ralph