Re: Building latest StreamDevice

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

I had started to work on pcre2 support a while ago but I was at the
Codeathon/sick/on vacation/at the collaboration meeting (in that order for the
last two month) and had not worked on it for a while. As soon as I have worked
off my other backlog, I will get back to it...

Dirk



On Tue, 2026-04-28 at 14:58 +0200, Gerrit Kühn via Tech-talk wrote:
> Hello David,
> 
> I think this is the same issue we saw a couple of weeks ago. Michael found
> this to be caused by spaces vs. tabs in the Makefile (see
> https://epics.anl.gov/tech-talk/2026/msg00506.php ) and has created this fix:
> https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://github.com/paulscherrerinstitute/StreamDevice/pull/108__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!acicnWtnKlTg1o0esMZoKrFsQkCbDz0pKPOqIe_BPC-ia9wb__nCb9mzBB32yuQTrFTGDb_mrhS0Ei72S8cfT31zqQ$ 
> 
> This solved the issues on our end (both for pcre2 and pcre3).
> 
> 
> HTH
> cu
>   Gerrit
> 
> 
> 
> Am Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:48:13 +0000
> schrieb "Dudley, David via Tech-talk" <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>:
> 
> > I have been fighting getting StreamDevice built for weeks, now.
> > 
> > When I run a compile, it gives me a list of .dbd files that it says it
> > can't find. 'dbdExpand.pl: no input files for
> > ../O.Common/stream-scalout.dbd' 'dbdExpand.pl: no input files for
> > ../O.Common/stream-base.dbd' 'dbdExpand.pl: no input files for
> > ../O.Common/stream.dbd'
> > 
> > It ends with a "no rule to make target 'stream.dbd.d', needed by 'build'.
> > 
> > I'm sure this is just a support program I don't have installed on this
> > machine, but it worked fine until a month or two ago.
> > 
> > The configuration RELEASE file seems to reference a file called
> > "SUPPORT.$(EPICS_HOST_ARCH".. bit that file doesn't exist anywhere (and it
> > looks like it's optional anyway).
> > 
> > Anyone else having this problem
> > 
> > Later-
> > 
> > David
> >