From fa12125bdffdb5dac9af5815b22eb05ec2ad36e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Janet B. Anderson" Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 22:47:41 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Added GNU readline or Tecla library software requirements. --- documentation/README.1st | 12 ++++++++++++ documentation/README.html | 16 +++++++++++++++- 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/documentation/README.1st b/documentation/README.1st index ab1fdcb6b..5ef499e86 100644 --- a/documentation/README.1st +++ b/documentation/README.1st @@ -119,6 +119,18 @@ Software requirements more board support packages. Consult the vxWorks documentation for details. + GNU readline or Tecla library + GNU readline and Tecla librararies can be used by the IOC shell to + provide command line editing and command line history recall and edit. + GNU readline (or Tecla library) must be installed on your target system + when COMMANDLINE_LIBRARY is set to READLINE (or TECLA) for that target. + EPICS (EPICS shell) is the default specified in CONFIG_COMMON. A READLINE + override is defined for linux-x86 in the EPICS distribution. Comment out + COMMANDLINE_LIBRARY=READLINE in configure/os/CONFIG_SITE.Common.linux-x86 + if readline is not installed on linux-x86. Command-line editing and + history will then be those supplied by the os. On vxWorks the ledLib + command-line input libraries are used. + Host system storage requirements The GNU zipped tar file is approximately 1.4 MB in size. The unzipped diff --git a/documentation/README.html b/documentation/README.html index 0e109f76d..f78a9b37d 100644 --- a/documentation/README.html +++ b/documentation/README.html @@ -127,6 +127,7 @@ the host vendor's C and C++ compilers as well as the GNU gcc and g++ compilers. The GNU cross-compilers have been used for all cross-compiled targets. You may need the host vendor's C++ compiler in your search path to do EPICS builds. Check definitions of CC and CCC in base/configure/os/CONFIG.<host>.<host>. +

Software requirements

@@ -150,8 +151,21 @@ to Tornado 2 should be specified in the base/configure/RELEASE or base/configure/RELEASE.<hostarch> file. You will also need one or more board support packages. Consult the vxWorks documentation for details. +

GNU readline or Tecla library +
+GNU readline and Tecla librararies can be used by the IOC shell to +provide command line editing and command line history recall and edit. +GNU readline (or Tecla library) must be installed on your target system +when COMMANDLINE_LIBRARY is set to READLINE (or TECLA) for that target. +EPICS (EPICS shell) is the default specified in CONFIG_COMMON. A READLINE +override is defined for linux-x86 in the EPICS distribution. Comment out +COMMANDLINE_LIBRARY=READLINE in configure/os/CONFIG_SITE.Common.linux-x86 +if readline is not installed on linux-x86. Command-line editing and +history will then be those supplied by the os. On vxWorks the ledLib +command-line input libraries are used. +

Host system storage requirements

@@ -164,7 +178,7 @@ files for each target take approximately 10 MB. Documentation
EPICS documentation is available on the WWW via the EPICS home -page at APS: URL http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics
+page at APS: URL http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics available on the IOC software, Base R3.14, release number, web page which can be accessed from the APS EPICS home page.