Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Michael Davidsaver via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> · Tue, 18 Aug 2020 18:42:55 -0700

On 8/18/20 2:45 PM, Randall Cayford via Tech-talk wrote:
> We must be missing something obvious but synApps won’t install on Ubuntu for us.  The problem step is make release hangs forever.  Some problem with perl but we don’t know what.
> 
> Steps:
> install ubuntu 18 LTS
> Install EPICS7
> Unzip the synApps (6_1) tar file and edit config files
> run “make release”
> Wait forever….

What, if anything, is printed while you are waiting?

> Exact same procedure installs fine on Centos 7.  Since there isn’t a lot of chatter about this, it seems like we’re missing a step somewhere.  Anyone know what we need to do?

I occasionally have builds get stuck in infinite loops,
repeating the same set of steps until I interrupt.
So far this hasn't happen often or predictably enough
to do much troubleshooting.

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System