From 025b13b977e7bfb6406e5a251b2d0949960c708d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John Quintana Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 20:50:36 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] *** empty log message *** --- README.Linux | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README.Linux diff --git a/README.Linux b/README.Linux new file mode 100644 index 000000000..81331c1b5 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.Linux @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ + Special Notes on Linux +1) The epics makefiles use GNU make which is the make that comes + with Linux. You need to make a link from make to gnumake and + have it in your path. After you have defined the EPICS environement + variable, you can use: + + ln -s /usr/bin/make $EPICS/base/tools/gnumake + +2) At this point, support for Linux only involves channel access + clients. Since Vxworks is not available for Linux, you must + use other platforms for developing server side code. As for + building databases with dct and gdct, this requires that the + $EPICS/base/tools/makesdr script works properly. Since makesdr + is slated to be removed from the EPICS distribution in a future + release, we didn't feel it was important to include this capability + now. Consequently, when you run make you will receive the error + + gnumake[4]: *** [bldDefaultSdr] Error 127 + + and + + gnumake[3]: *** [comsubs.o] Error 1 + +3) You MUST start caRepeater by hand before running a client. +Prior to running a client, you must run: + +caRepeater & + +--- +jpq@nwu.edu + + + +