Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Jemian, Pete R. via Tech-talk" <[email protected]> · Tue, 26 Feb 2019 22:20:45 +0000

Just built it on linuxmint 19 (Debian derivative)
My experience is similar to Bob's

installed these extra libraries
libxmu-dev
libice-dev
libmotif-dev
libxmu-dev
xfonts-75dpi


These diffs in the source tree (all in the top-level Makefile):

(bluesky) mintadmin@mint-vm:.../src/medm$ git diff

diff --git a/medm/Makefile b/medm/Makefile
index 007ec46..e69e762 100644
--- a/medm/Makefile
+++ b/medm/Makefile
@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@
  TOP = ../../..
  include $(TOP)/configure/CONFIG

+MOTIF_INC = /usr/include/Xm/
+MOTIF_LIB = /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/
+X11_LIB = $(MOTIF_LIB)
+
  # Motif
  USE_MOTIF12=NO
  #USE_MOTIF12=YES
@@ -170,9 +174,9 @@ USR_LIBS_solaris = Xm12 Xt Xmu X11 Xext
  Xm12_DIR = $(MOTIF_LIB)
  endif

-USR_LIBS_Linux = Xm Xt Xp Xmu X11 Xext
+#USR_LIBS_Linux = Xm Xt Xp Xmu X11 Xext
  #Xp is not available and not needed on Linux Mint 18
-#USR_LIBS_Linux = Xm Xt Xmu X11 Xext
+USR_LIBS_Linux = Xm Xt Xmu X11 Xext

  USR_LIBS_cygwin32 = Xm Xt Xmu X11 Xext SM ICE
  USR_LIBS_Darwin = -nil-


On 2019-02-26 3:19 PM, Soliday, Robert T. via Tech-talk wrote:
> I just built it on Debian 9 (stretch)
> 
> I had to change 
> epics/extensions/configure/os/CONFIG_SITE.linux-x86_64.linux-x86_64
> X11_LIB=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
> X11_INC=/usr/include/X11
> MOTIF_LIB=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
> MOTIF_INC=/usr/include/X11
> 
> I also had to change the Makefile at epics/extensions/src/medm/medm/Makefile
> #USR_LIBS_Linux = Xm Xt Xp Xmu X11 Xext
> USR_LIBS_Linux = Xm Xt Xmu X11 Xext
> 
> I have a /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so that I believe comes from 
> the libmotif-dev package
> 
> --Bob Soliday
> 
> On 02/26/2019 02:32 PM, Siddons, David via Tech-talk wrote:
>>
>> Has anyone succeeded in building MEDM on Debian stretch? I can't find 
>> libXp-dev and libXmu-dev packages for stretch. The most recent is for 
>> Jessie and it conflicts.
>>
>> Pete.
>>
>>
> 

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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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