Basic EPICS bootstrap (rant)

[Graeme Winter via Tech-talk <tech-talk@aps.anl.gov>]

Good afternoon

Working through 

Getting Started epics-controls.org

It really feels like this is something which could be made _much_ easier by writing a kind of bootstrap script but also by the configure process being able to pick up stuff from the environment rather than having to hard-code every location multiple times in every configuration file (where the defaults are of course where the author does _their_ epics development) - the need for them to all correctly cross-reference is also an irritation

Before I scrape another few mm off my already suffering sanity - 

- _has_ anyone got a bootstrap script which will clone / install all the necessary / regular support modules

- am I holding it wrong / reading the wrong getting started guide

I note I can conda install epics-base but this _only_ gives epics base

That rant to one side, also, does anyone know how to address a missing symbol issue like

Undefined symbols for architecture arm64:

  "_pvar_func_vxi11RegisterCommands", referenced from:

      _cryo1_registerRecordDeviceDriver in cryo1_registerRecordDeviceDriver.o

ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture arm64

The symbol is indeed missing and would appear to be from asyn/vxi11/drvVxi11.c but does not appear to be built

This got me thinking I should re-do the NN steps to get back to here which then got me wondering about process itself…

Thanks Graeme

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