Re: softIoc and softIocPVA in EPICS7

[Jeong Han Lee via Tech-talk <tech-talk@aps.anl.gov>]

Thanks, Michael.

Will test it soon, and let you know. BTW, do you change softMain.cpp in 
pva2pva repo to sync with them?
Best,
Han

On 11/25/19 8:07 PM, Michael Davidsaver wrote:
> On 11/21/19 11:51 AM, Michael Davidsaver wrote:
> > On 11/21/19 7:50 AM, Jeong Han Lee via Tech-talk wrote:
> > > Hi Andrew and Michael,
> > >
> > >    During the EPICS 7 testing, we saw few interesting aspects on softIoc and softIocPVA in EPICS7.
> > >
> > >    * softIoc
> > >
> > >     Somehow, -D option was gone [1], and is still there in usage [2]
> > >
> > >    * softIocPVA
> > >
> > >     Here -D option exists within usage and it is in the main function also [3,4].
> > >
> > >
> > >    Then, I realized the softIoc loads its dbd file automatically by using lazy_dbd [5], but the softIocPVA doesn't have the laze_dbd function.
> > Actually removing -D is an oversight on my part, it should still be an option, although
> > most usage won't be necessary with the addition of epicsGetExecDir() to reliably find
> > ../../dbd/softIoc.dbd at runtime.
> If you'd like to verify, this should be fixed by:
>
> https://github.com/epics-base/epics-base/commit/a7cb9524c2761f03c6e5a0538d16dde9162547fa
>
> on the 7.0 branch.