[GSoC 2020: Daily Update]: Building EPICS with RTEMS5

[Chris Johns]

On 6/7/20 12:47 am, Heinz Junkes wrote:
> Thank you, this is exactly where I was unsure.
> @Chris: Can you give a recommendation here?
> Danke Heinz
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>> On 5. Jul 2020, at 16:20, Gedare Bloom <gedare at rtems.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 1:18 PM Mritunjay Sharma
>> <mritunjaysharma394 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> On Sun, Jul 5, 2020 at 12:28 AM Heinz Junkes <junkes at fhi-berlin.mpg.de> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello, Mritunjay,
>>>> that's good news. Don't you want to try to develop a rsb-set for exactly this combination of RTEMS4.10 and EPICS7?
>>>
>>>
>>> Sure, I am ready to do this and then do it with RTEMS5 in the same way. Please tell how to begin or some existing similar
>>> work that can guide me how to proceed further in relation to rsb-set for  RTEMS4.10 and EPICS7.
>>>
>>
>> I don't know if this is best. RSB didn't exist in 4.10. I haven't
>> looked to see how well the rtems-source-builder/4.10 would support a
>> package build. It should be discussed with Chris probably. A couple of
>> packages were added in the 4.11 branch.

I would leave 4.10 and move on. It may work but these things can expose issues
that turn into distractions.

Would making a script that does the build so we can document the steps be worth
while?

Chris