Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] June 7 EMC install problems.

If you are wanting to get EMC installed for the purpose of running a machine
then go with the RedHat 5.2 setup. It will build just perfect if you follow
the instructions and use the real time kernel install script. If you want to
help advance the state of the art by getting EMC on a newer release of Linux
then you have to suffer the pain as you outline below. Funny part is if you
are using the box as just a machine controller it works just as well on 5.2
and the install is well documented, stable, and pretty straight forward.

Tim
[Denver, CO]

-----Original Message-----
From: John Guenther <jguenther@...>
To: CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@egroups.com <CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@egroups.com>
Date: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 12:32 PM
Subject: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] June 7 EMC install problems.

>Ray,
>
>I have followed your instructions to the letter, been through it several
>times from the get go on two different machines., and still have problems
>with the EMC compile using the June 7 EMC release. The configuration is
>Redhat 6.2 with kernel 2.2.14, rtlinux prepatched kernel 2_2_13, and EMC
>June 7, 2000 release. Here is the problem, after finally getting all of
>the files copied to the correct places per your instructions, I still can't
>get iosh to build. I get a long list of warnings and then it quits with

and

>Error 1 message. EMC appears to work fine in simulation mode but without
>iosh I don't think it will do me much good trying to run the machine. I
>have been doing computers for 26 years and I under stand peoples

frustration

>with installing EMC. I have read all the posts on producing EMC cd's for
>easy install, I find this quite interesting as no one has mentioned
>straightening out the source tree to get all the files in the right place
>with a single tree structure for the current rtlinux release. I am not
>convinced that you can build the current EMC release without having several
>older releases installed on the same system. EMC looks like it has a lot

of

>potential, and yes I know NIST is not going to release a commercial

product,

>but I can understand some of the reasons why no one has tried to make a
>commercial product out of EMC yet. I too would be willing to work on
>packaging it up, but not until someone cleans up the source tree, the way

it

>is now every time they come out with a new release you would have to spend
>several weeks debugging it and making sure it all compiles on many

different

>platforms. I don't see the market supporting the cost of this effort for
>free software.
>
>John Guenther
>
>
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