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

[Gedare Bloom]

On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 10:12 AM Mritunjay Sharma
<mritunjaysharma394 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> Thank you, Heinz, Gedare, Chris and Joel for your advice.
> If there are issues in making a buildset for 4.10
> then should I build EPICS with RTEMS 5 by hand first and note
> down the process and then proceed to make the buildset for it?
>

Yes.

> Please suggest for the future steps.
>
> Thanks
> Mritunjay
>
> On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 5:38 AM Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org> wrote:
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>> On Sun, Jul 5, 2020, 6:12 PM Chris Johns <chrisj at rtems.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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:
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> 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
>>
>>
>> Yes. Emphatically yes. We need to make sure we know how it is best built by hand to automate it.
>>
>> I firmly believe you should not attempt to automate something until doing it manually is well understood and documented.
>>
>> After you have this down for one BSP, we need to ask questions like:
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>> + Is there any per BSP tailoring beyond the obviod architecture and compilation settings?
>>
>> + Any tweaks to settings users may want?
>>
>> The manual process should include testing. The RSB is a great way to automate and ease building but it doesn't address testing the packages yet.
>>
>> --joel
>>
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