Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Johnson, Andrew N. via Tech-talk" <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> · Sun, 20 Dec 2020 19:12:00 +0000

IIRC the original softIoc had an option to specify the DBD file path on the command line (-D perhaps), and I don’t think Michael removed that so you might be able to get it to work by adding that option, possibly to your st.cmd’s #! line.

- Andrew

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> On Dec 20, 2020, at 12:16 PM, Michael Davidsaver via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> wrote:
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> On 12/19/20 5:52 PM, Rolf Keitel via Tech-talk wrote:
>> I am trying to run a simple softIocPVA.
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>> I created a boot directory for the ioc and copied softIocPVA and softIocPVA.dbd  from the EPICS build tree to the boot directory.
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> I didn't expect that anyone would do this :)
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> I suppose it is ironic that my attempt to enable relocation of softIoc* should
> backfire in this situation.  I assumed that the entire build tree would be
> copied so that the softIoc executable(s) and corresponding .dbd files would
> maintain their relative locations.  The ../../dbd/softIoc*.dbd you see is
> relative to the directory containing the executable, not $PWD.
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>> I am using the following st.cmd script:
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>> The IOC starts as I expect in EPICS 7.0.3, but not in 7.0.4.1
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>> In 7.0.4.1 the dbd file is not found and I get the following error message (I massaged the output and inserted <boot directory> for my lengthy IOC boot directory path):
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>> Rolf Keitel, Ph.D
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>> TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall
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>> Vancouver, BC, V6T 2A3
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>> Tel.: 604 222 7453
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>> e-mail: rolf at triumf.ca <mailto:rolf at triumf.ca>
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>> -- The old generation has to die off so that a new set of idiots can make the same mistakes all over again --
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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