Re: MEDM crash

[Torsten Bögershausen via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

There is a trial to improve the situation:

https://github.com/epics-extensions/medm/pull/3

BR
/Torsten



On 10/22/20 10:36 PM, Mark Rivers via Tech-talk wrote:
> That fixed it.  I should have noticed that the Makefile has a commented out line to do that.  This is the "git diff" that fixes the problem.
>
> -USR_LIBS_Linux = Xm Xt Xp Xmu X11 Xext
> +#USR_LIBS_Linux = Xm Xt Xp Xmu X11 Xext
>   #Xp is not available and not needed on Linux Mint 18
> -#USR_LIBS_Linux = Xm Xt Xmu X11 Xext
> +USR_LIBS_Linux = Xm Xt Xmu X11 Xext
>
> Mark
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeong Han Lee <citadel.lee at gmail.com>
> Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2020 3:34 PM
> To: Johnson, Andrew N. <anj at anl.gov>
> Cc: Mark Rivers <rivers at cars.uchicago.edu>; EPICS tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
> Subject: Re: MEDM crash
>
> Mark,
>
> Try to compile without Xp. makefile should contains
>
> USR_LIBS_Linux = Xm Xt Xmu X11 Xext
>
> instead of
>
> USR_LIBS_Linux = Xm Xt Xp Xmu X11 Xext
>
> Han
>
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 1:30 PM Johnson, Andrew N. via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> wrote:
> > IIRC there are some libraries that are no longer needed and that might be one of them, try modifying the Makefile to take that out and see whether it builds.
> >
> > - Andrew
> >
> >
> > On Oct 22, 2020, at 3:22 PM, Mark Rivers <rivers at cars.uchicago.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Ø  As Bob pointed out you have an empty include path in your build. The last -I option there was eating up the -MM which explains the error message, so one of your extensions config variables was probably empty.
> >
> > I solved that.  I was missing this file that needs to define X11_LIB and MOTIF_LIB:
> >
> > extensions/configure/os/CONFIG_SITE.linux-x86_64-ub18.linux-x86_64-ub1
> > 8
> >
> > However, now I get this error:
> >
> >     -lANLwidgets -lPrintUtils -lca -lCom -lXm -lXt -lXp -lXmu -lX11 -lXext   -lpthread   -lreadline -lm -lrt -ldl -lgcc
> > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXp
> > collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> > /corvette/usr/local/epics/base/configure/RULES_BUILD:212: recipe for
> > target 'medm' failed
> >
> > I have Googled to see what package provides libXp.so on Ubuntu 18, and I can’t find it.  Others have the same problem.
> >
> > Pete and Bob how did you install libXp.so?
> >
> > Mark
> >
> >
> > From: Johnson, Andrew N. <anj at anl.gov>
> > Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2020 3:14 PM
> > To: Mark Rivers <rivers at cars.uchicago.edu>
> > Cc: Soliday, Robert T. <soliday at anl.gov>; EPICS tech-talk
> > <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
> > Subject: Re: MEDM crash
> >
> > On Oct 22, 2020, at 1:54 PM, Mark Rivers <rivers at cars.uchicago.edu> wrote:
> >
> >
> > That PR builds OK on Centos 7, but it fails to build on Ubuntu 18.  I see the same failure on Ubuntu 18 with the MEDM_3_1_14 tag.
> >
> >
> > TahoeU18:/corvette/usr/local/epics/extensions_new/src/medm_fix> make
> > make -C ./printUtils install
> > make[1]: Entering directory '/corvette/usr/local/epics/extensions_new/src/medm_fix/printUtils'
> > make -C O.linux-x86_64-ub18 -f ../Makefile TOP=../../../.. \
> >     T_A=linux-x86_64-ub18 install
> > make[2]: Entering directory '/corvette/usr/local/epics/extensions_new/src/medm_fix/printUtils/O.linux-x86_64-ub18'
> > /usr/bin/gcc  -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_DEFAULT_SOURCE           -D_X86_64_  -DUNIX  -Dlinux      -O3 -g   -Wall      -mtune=generic      -m64 -fPIC -I. -I../O.Common -I. -I. -I.. -I../../../../include/compiler/gcc -I../../../../include/os/Linux -I../../../../include -I/corvette/usr/local/epics/base/include/compiler/gcc -I/corvette/usr/local/epics/base/include/os/Linux -I/corvette/usr/local/epics/base/include   -I../../../../include       -I    -MM -MF xwd2ps.d  ../xwd2ps.c
> > cc1: error: to generate dependencies you must specify either -M or -MM
> >
> >
> > As Bob pointed out you have an empty include path in your build. The last -I option there was eating up the -MM which explains the error message, so one of your extensions config variables was probably empty.
> >
> > - Andrew
> >
> > --
> > Complexity comes for free, simplicity you have to work for.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Complexity comes for free, simplicity you have to work for.