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

[Joel Sherrill]

On Mon, Jul 6, 2020, 6:14 PM Gedare Bloom <gedare at rtems.org> wrote:

> 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.
>

+1

And by 5, we definitely mean the 5 branch for all rtems repo and the
similarly named one for libbsd.

>
> > Please suggest for the future steps.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Mritunjay
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 5:38 AM Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 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:
> >>
> >> + 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
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Chris
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