Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

So…

I’m building with EPICS 7 – current github release.

 

Trying to build into a directory –other- than where it’s stored (it’s on a USB stick, would rather the result be on the internal SSD).

 

Doing building using ‘make INSTALL_LOCATION=xxx’, and things go OK for a while.  Everything gets loaded onto the SSD.

Now, that’s until the build gets down to needing ‘makeMakeFile.pl’ or one of the other perl scripts.  Those insist on being invoked directly from the bin directory of the source structure.

Adding a bin directory (in my case, ./bin/linux-86_64/) and copying all the perl scripts over from where they were successfully installed, things continue building correctly.

 

Next problem that occurs is related to testCa, where again, it’s trying to use files that were built into another location, as if they’re local.  This error is for referencing  ‘softIoc.dbd’

Then… it’s trying to load some modules from lib/perl in the source directory.

 

Do I need to add something else to this?

 

BTW: changing INSTALL_PATH in the CONFIG_SITE file doesn’t make this work, and I’m trying to do all of this –without- modifying any of the downloaded files.

 

Later-

 

David Dudley Controls Engineer III Facility for Rare Isotope Beams Michigan State University 640 South Shaw Lane East Lansing, MI 48824-1321, USA Tel. 517-908-7133 Email: dudleyd@frib.msu.edu