Fwd: Re: EDM on stretch

[Christoph Schroeder via Tech-talk <tech-talk@aps.anl.gov>]

Hi Anton,

I still have our edm debian build repository based on the epicsdeb version uploaded to github (uploaded for someone else when the original edm source was offline):
https://github.com/chrschroeder/edm

I build this against base 3.15.5 on Debian 8 and 9. You can use it to build the package for the NSLS-II repository. The patches should fix all build issues on stretch, but I didn't fix any possible XtPointer cast errors though.
On the other hand I didn't hear any complains from our operators and I am using it myself on a Debian 9 machine, so I would say it runs stable enough for usage.

Best regards,
Christoph

On 4/29/19 8:22 PM, Anton Derbenev via Tech-talk wrote:

Hello all,

long story short, there is a contractor product coming with EDM screens, and it's supposed to work on a Debian 9 (stretch) system. Now, it's either:

1) Make edm work on stretch, or

2) Convert screens to CS-Studio.

While I'd lean for option 2, we're also working on populating our NSLS-II Debian 9 EPICS repository where most if not all major modules from epicsdeb are available (but not edm). There are few issues with EDM:

* libxp-dev is not available on stretch

* There are 'int to XtPointer' conversion issues akin to mentioned in this TechTalk post.

* EDM upstream location is currently dead.

So, did anyone manage to build EDM on stretch? To what extent is it used nowadays even? If we had a package which builds, we'd be glad to publish it in our mirror.

Regards,

Anton.

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