Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Andrew Johnson via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> · Wed, 8 Jun 2022 12:35:41 -0500

Hi,

On 6/8/22 12:07 PM, William Kirstaedter via Tech-talk wrote:

is that possible?

it would reduce the compile time on raspberry pis quite a lot, I think.

There is no mechanism available to do that in the EPICS build system at

the moment, but it might not be too hard to add if that's a project

which interests you and you have an understand of GNU Makefiles (or you

can persuade someone else to work on it who does).

I would start by adding a switch to configure/CONFIG_SITE which prevents

the $(TESTPRODTARGETS)  and $(TESTSCRIPTS) variables being expanded as

dependencies of the build: rule in configure/RULES_BUILD, and also

excluding the $(TESTLIBNAME), $(TESTSHRLIBNAME) and

$(TESTDLLSTUB_LIBNAME) from being added to LIBTARGETS a few lines above

that. That switch should also prevent RUNTESTS_ENABLED from being set a

few lines above that. There should be no need to disable most of the

other settings that use variable names beginning with or containing the

word TEST, but there might be some other things that need doing for it

to work properly.

Let me know if you do plan/start to work on this, I'm responsible for

the build system and should be able to help with specific problems that

could arise.

- Andrew

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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System