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 &

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