Re: installing synApps on Ubuntu

[Randall Cayford via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

Nothing is printed. 
It happens on every Ubuntu machine we try to install on.  

> On Aug 18, 2020, at 6:42 PM, Michael Davidsaver <mdavidsaver at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.