Any patch files linked below should be applied at the root of the -base-3.16.1 tree. Download them, then use the GNU Patch program as +base-7.0.1 tree. Download them, then use the GNU Patch program as follows:
-% cd /path/to/base-3.16.1 +% cd /path/to/base-7.0.1 % patch -p1 < /path/to/file.patchThe following problems were known by the developers at the time of this @@ -32,10 +32,6 @@ release:
about duplicate EPICS CA Address list entries. These warnings might be due to a bug in Cygwin; they are benign and can be ignored. -64-bit Windows builds of the CAS library may not work with some compilers. - The code in src/legacy/gdd is incompatible with the LLP64 model - that Windows uses for its 64-bit ABI. - diff --git a/documentation/README.html b/documentation/README.html index 8917fa2e7..53f09c117 100644 --- a/documentation/README.html +++ b/documentation/README.html @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@Installation Instructions
-EPICS Base Release 3.16.1
+EPICS Base Release 7.0.1
Table of Contents
@@ -243,11 +243,11 @@ Files in the base/startup directory have been provided to help set required path and other environment variables.EPICS_HOST_ARCH
- Before you can build or use EPICS R3.15, the environment variable - EPICS_HOST_ARCH must be defined. A perl script EpicsHostArch.pl in the + Before you can build or use EPICS Base, the environment variable + EPICS_HOST_ARCH should be defined. A perl script EpicsHostArch.pl in the base/startup directory has been provided to help set EPICS_HOST_ARCH. You should have EPICS_HOST_ARCH set to your host operating system - followed by a dash and then your host architecture, e.g. solaris-sparc. + followed by a dash and then your CPU architecture, e.g. linux-x86_64. If you are not using the OS vendor's c/c++ compiler for host builds, you will need another dash followed by the alternate compiler name (e.g. "-gnu" for GNU c/c++ compilers on a solaris host or "-mingw" @@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ Files in the base/startup directory have been provided toLD_LIBRARY_PATH
- R3.15 shared libraries and executables normally contain the full path + EPICS shared libraries and executables normally contain the full path to any libraries they require. However, if you move the EPICS files or directories from their build-time location then in order for the shared libraries to be found at runtime @@ -343,7 +343,7 @@ Files in the base/startup directory have been provided to and then executed to try out this release of base.- Instructions for building and executing the 3.15 example application + Instructions for building and executing the example IOC application can be found in the section "Example Application" of Chapter 2, "Getting Started", in the "IOC Application Developer's Guide" for this release. The "Example IOC Application" section briefly explains how to