rtems-addon-packages removed?

[Joel Sherrill]

On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 1:17 PM, Matt Rippa <mrippa at gemini.edu> wrote:

> Thanks for the info. Any reason why the rtems-libbspext couldn't live on
> git.rtems.org ? I think this link exists mostly for Michael's
> epics/debian distribution.
>
> The main one is practical. Do the maintainer(s) want to maintain it here?

Another question to ask is what capabilities are in that library and should
they be a standard part of the BSP interfaces? If they are that useful, it
would be nice to encourage them on all BSPs, not just the ones the EPICS
community uses.


> Anyway, looks like I have enough to make an RSB recipe.
>

Great!


> -Matt
>
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 8:16 AM, Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 11:30 AM, Matt Rippa <mrippa at gemini.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Joel,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to build rtems-4.10.2 strictly with rsb. When it comes to the
>>> rtems-addon packages it's not clear there's any build set to accomplish
>>> this. As a work around I cloned git://git.rtems.org/rte
>>> ms-addon-packages.git and switched to the rtems-addon-packages-4-10-branch.
>>> Building this works fine except the libbspExt package is missing. This is
>>> required for us to build EPICS.
>>>
>>>
>> libbspExt was never part of RTEMS. It was developed atSLAC. I found this:
>>
>> https://github.com/epicsdeb/rtems-libbspext
>>
>> And this is where it originated.
>>
>> http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~strauman/rtems/software.html
>>
>> If there is a newer version, I don't know.  It was always a SLAC/EPICS
>> addon.
>> It is a good candidate for an RSB recipe.
>>
>>
>>> To proceed with a 4.10.2 install for EPICS, I had to:
>>>
>>> 1. $ cd rtems-addon
>>> 2. $ wget --passive-ftp --no-directories --retr-symlinks
>>> www.slac.stanford.edu/~strauman/rtems/rtems_libbspExt_1.5.tgz
>>> 3. unpack, make, make install
>>> 4. rebuild EPICS
>>>
>>> Is there a known rsb build-set for 4.10.2 or even a git branch for
>>> 4.10.2 that includes libbspExt_1_5?
>>>
>>> The SLAC link I posted has 1.5 and 1.6.
>>
>> Good opportunity to create an RSB recipe and submit it. It would be
>> appreciated.
>>
>> FWIW one for EPICS itself would be awesome and appreciated.
>>
>>
>>> -Matt
>>>
>>> On Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 5:09 AM, Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm going to dig back through my sent email. I know I worked on them.
>>>> Maybe I sent them to the list or Chris directly for review and they never
>>>> got merged.
>>>>
>>>> On Oct 1, 2016 9:08 AM, "Michael Westfall" <mwestfal at gemini.edu> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> But the rtems-addon-packages had things like ncurses, readline and
>>>> libtecla..
>>>> Are those somewhere in RSB now?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 4:42 AM, Chris Johns <chrisj at rtems.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 1/10/16 3:04 am, Gedare Bloom wrote:
>>>>> > On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 11:57 AM, Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> >> On Sep 30, 2016 10:49 AM, "Gedare Bloom" <gedare at rtems.org> wrote:
>>>>> >>>
>>>>> >>> Looks like it was renamed: https://git.rtems.org/libbsdport/
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> That's the port of newer drivers to the old tcpip stack.
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >>> Also, https://devel.rtems.org/ticket/2469 indicates some progress
>>>>> was made
>>>>> >>> to convert it to RSB configurations/recipes, after which the git
>>>>> repo would
>>>>> >>> become obsolete.
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> That's the reason. You can build them all with the rsb. The
>>>>> graphics toolkit
>>>>> >> has only a couple of packages left and it follows the same fate.
>>>>> >>
>>>>> > Where are the recipes in the RSB? A quick look was not obvious.
>>>>>
>>>>> https://git.rtems.org/rtems-source-builder/tree/rtems/config/graphics
>>>>>
>>>>> which means names like:
>>>>>
>>>>>  graphics/tllib
>>>>>  graphics/microwindows
>>>>>
>>>>> Chris
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>> Mike Westfall
>>>> Control Systems Software Engineer
>>>>
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