Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Hi,

I have an old EPICS application that automatically creates an EPICS db-file and then installs it into the application's top db-directory. The Makefile worked fine using base R3-14-12-4 (using RHEL7). Now I am trying to migrate it to EPICS base R7-0-8 (but using RHEL9) , and now I am having problems with the Makefile. I attached a much simplified version of the Makefile of the Db directory to this message. Basically, I am creating a db-file called "test.db" using the "touch" command (instead of the actual script) and I try to install it into the db-directory. While it works fine with EPICS base base R3-14-12-4, when I run the "make" command using EPICS base 7, the file test.db  actually does get installed , but then I get these error messages (see below), and the "make" process quits .


hd-rhel9:Db> make rebuild
rm -rf O.linux-x86_64 O.Common
perl -CSD /gluex/controls/epics/R7-0-8-RHEL9/base/bin/linux-x86_64/makeMakefile.pl O.linux-x86_64 ../../..
mkdir -p O.Common
make -C O.linux-x86_64 -f ../Makefile TOP=../../.. \
    T_A=linux-x86_64 install
make[1]: Entering directory '/gluonfs1/home/hovanes/test/newEPICS/epics7exampleApp/Db/O.linux-x86_64'
touch ../O.Common/test.db
Installing created db file ../../../db/test.db
make[1]: *** No rule to make target 'test.db.d', needed by 'build'.  Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory '/gluonfs1/home/hovanes/test/newEPICS/epics7exampleApp/Db/O.linux-x86_64'
make: *** [/gluex/controls/epics/R7-0-8-RHEL9/base/configure/RULES_ARCHS:58: install.linux-x86_64] Error 2
hd-rhel9:Db>

I have not tried the new EPICS base 7 on RHEL7, but I do not think RHEL9 is the problem. I would appreciate any help debugging this problem.

Thanks,
      Hovanes Egiyan.