Re: Using the EPICS Build/Make system to build kernel modules for linux

[Ralph Lange <Ralph.Lange@gmx.de>]

On 18/02/2015 18:18, Jameson Graef Rollins wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 12 2015, "Williams Jr., Ernest L." <ernesto@slac.stanford.edu> wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> > I would like to hi-jack the EPICS Make system framework to build kernel modules.
> I'm so sorry, but I feel compelled to speak out that the EPICS build
> system is one of the more obscure, convoluted, and unfriendly to work
> with as I have seen.  It makes packaging EPICS and related software
> extremely difficult.
Hi Jamie,

As a Debian package maintainer, you are certainly aware of the EPICS 
Debian packaging activities [1, 2].
Contributions are highly welcome.

>    I would strongly advise against using it as a prototype for other projects.
For this application (building Linux kernel modules) I fully agree.

For EPICS related applications that need the same cross compilation 
target architectures as your main EPICS tree - things might be different.
Cheers,
~Ralph

[1] http://epics.nsls2.bnl.gov/debian/
[2] https://github.com/epicsdeb