Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Adeel Akram <[email protected]> · Mon, 14 Dec 2015 18:34:46 +0100

Hello Guys,

I am new to EPICS. I am using EPICS base-3.15.3. I am using Ubuntu 15.10

64bit as test OS (I also need to install it on Debian 8.1 later on,

which is my server). Following is my epics installation directory structure

~/epics/base (successfully build)
~/epics/extensions

I am trying to install medm3.1.9 extension. After running

"adeel@ubuntu1510:~/epics/extensions/src/medm$ make" , I am getting

following errors (after some compiling)

...

../xgif.c:156:9: warning: variable ‘x’ set but not used

[-Wunused-but-set-variable]

     int x, y;
         ^

make[2]: *** No rule to make target '/usr/lib64/libXm.a', needed by

'medm'. Stop.

make[2]: Leaving directory

'/home/adeel/epics/extensions/src/medm/medm/O.linux-x86_64'

../../../../base/configure/RULES_ARCHS:64: recipe for target

'install.linux-x86_64' failed

make[1]: *** [install.linux-x86_64] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/adeel/epics/extensions/src/medm/medm'

../../../base/configure/RULES_DIRS:87: recipe for target 'medm.install'

failed

make: *** [medm.install] Error 2

It seems the problem is with libXm.a which is part of libxp-dev and its

not available on Ubuntu 15.10. I downloaded libxp-dev from launchpad but

it need libxp6 which is also not available on ubuntu. I searched on

tech-talk but I couldn't find the satisfactory solution. I will

appreciate your expert help. Please link if solution is already given

(may be I could not get it).

--
Best,
Adeel Akram
Universität Heidelberg.

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System