RE: cross compilation missing caRepeater [SEC=OFFICIAL]

["STARRITT, Andrew via Tech-talk" <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

Hi Andrew,
Thanks for the info. I will give it a try.
Regards
Andrew

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From: Johnson, Andrew N. <anj at anl.gov>
Sent: Saturday, 14 March 2026 2:44 AM
To: STARRITT, Andrew <andrews at ansto.gov.au>; 'EPICS Tech-Talk' <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
Subject: Re: cross compilation missing caRepeater [SEC=OFFICIAL]

 

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Hi Andrew,

 

Tl;dr: Yes, set 

  VALID_BUILDS = Ioc Command

in your

  configure/os/CONFIG.Common.linux-arm-gnueabihf

file.

 

Different EPICS target architectures support different kinds of products, for example for VxWorks and RTEMS targets we don’t compile the e_flex or antelope build tools, or the stand-alone caRepeater or catools programs. A target can adjust the products to be built by overriding the variable VALID_BUILDS in its configure/os/CONFIG.Common.<arch> file. In EPICS 7.0.5 we introduced a new product type “Command” and the new variables PROD_CMD, LIBRARY_CMD, SCRIPTS_CMD etc. for targets that want only the command-line programs to be built without the IOC code (or vice versa, the iOS target cannot build regular executables).

 

More information and instructions on how to adjust your site-specific target configuration files were included in this Release Notes entry.

 

- Andrew

 

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On 3/12/26, 10:21 PM, "Tech-talk" <tech-talk-bounces at aps.anl.gov> wrote:

 

Hi EPICS community,

 

I recently took over maintaining the cross-compilation environment for our Red Pitaya targets.

 

I noticed that caRepeater was not running on the Red Pitaya hosts, and it turned out that

caRepeater program and others like caget, caput and camonitor were missing from the

base/bin/linux-arm-gnueabihf directory; while items such as pvget, pvinfo, softIoc were there.

 

As a work around I changed PROD_CMD to PROD_DEFAULT in modules/ca/src/client/Makefile and

modules/ca/src/tools/Makefile and then caRepeater and friends built successfully.

 

My question: is there something I can add to configure/CONFIG_SITE.local or similar to achieve

this without changing the Makefiles.

 

The version of EPICS base that I am using is R7.0.9

 

Regards

Andrew STARRITT

Principal Controls Engineer

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