Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Andrew Johnson via Tech-talk <[email protected]> · Mon, 4 Nov 2019 22:22:17 +0000

Hi Ernesto,

Sorry for the delay...

On 10/30/19 8:08 PM, Ernesto Paiser wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> I'm getting the same problem as Emmanuel:
> Unknown option:b
> 
> I'm using EPICS 3.15.5:
> 
> I added in my Makefile:
> DBEXPAND += -b
> records_DBD += recordsBpt.dbd
> 
> Is this option still working in 3.15.5?

The -b option was not added to the new dbdExpand.pl Perl script when it
replaced the old dbExpand program in the 3.15 release series (IIRC those
two developments happened in parallel). The IOC will still do the
monotonic check when it loads the breakpoint table, unless you've
disabled it by setting the dbBptNotMonotonic variable to a non-zero
value in your startup script. If you need the checks to happen at
build-time they can be added relatively easily, but I can't promise a
particular timescale unless you want to work on this yourself (I can
provide pointers if you do).

Sorry about that.

- Andrew

> Here the output:
> ---
> 
> make -C O.linux-x86_64 -f ../Makefile TOP=../../.. \
>     T_A=linux-x86_64 install
> make[1]: Entering directory
> `/home/clsfs/epics/2/git/epics-iocs/cls1/drv/records/src/O.linux-x86_64'
> Creating dbd file records.dbd
> perl -CSD /opt/epics/base/bin/linux-x86_64/dbdExpand.pl -b  -I
> /home/local/epics/iochost/clsbpm1/dbd -I
> /opt/epics/extensions/synApps_6_1/support/asyn-R4-36/dbd -I
> /opt/epics/extensions/synApps_6_1/support/StreamDevice-2-8-9/dbd -I
> /opt/epics/extensions/synApps_6_1/support/calc-R3-7-3/dbd -I
> /opt/epics/extensions/src/csm-4.5/dbd -I
> /opt/epics/extensions/synApps_6_1/support/autosave-R5-10/dbd  -I. -I..
> -I../O.Common -I../../../dbd -I/opt/epics/base/dbd -o records.dbd
> base.dbd asSupport.dbd recordsSupport.dbd
> /opt/epics/extensions/synApps_6_1/support/calc-R3-7-3/dbd/calcSupport.dbd /opt/epics/extensions/synApps_6_1/support/StreamDevice-2-8-9/dbd/stream.dbd
> /opt/epics/extensions/synApps_6_1/support/asyn-R4-36/dbd/asyn.dbd
> /opt/epics/extensions/synApps_6_1/support/asyn-R4-36/dbd/drvAsynIPPort.dbd
> /opt/epics/extensions/synApps_6_1/support/asyn-R4-36/dbd/drvAsynSerialPort.dbd
> /opt/epics/extensions/src/csm-4.5/dbd/cvtRecord.dbd recordsBpt.dbd
> Unknown option: b
> Usage: dbdExpand [-D] [-I dir] [-S macro=val] [-o out.dbd] in.dbd ... at
> /opt/epics/base/bin/linux-x86_64/dbdExpand.pl line 20.
> make[1]: *** [../O.Common/records.dbd] Error 255
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/home/clsfs/epics/2/git/epics-iocs/cls1/drv/records/src/O.linux-x86_64'
> make: *** [install.linux-x86_64] Error 2
> 
> 

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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System