Re: Contributing to EMC

[Will Shackleford <shackle-at-cme.nist.gov>]

The easiest way to contribute would probably be to use
the sourceforge CVS repository.

To do this go to sourceforge.net and get a free login
name and then send me (shackle-at-cme.nist.gov)  the name so
I can add it to the list.

There are instructions for general CVS usage at www.cvshome.org  and 
some sourceforge specific info on the sourceforge site.

The EMC project page on sourceforge is at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/emc

If you prefer you can also send patches to me, Fred 
(proctor-at-cme.nist.gov), and/or perhaps drop
it in the linuxcnc.org dropbox and then announce it on emc-at-nist.gov.


If you can setup autoconf/automake for EMC and/or RCSLIB,
I think that would be greatly appreciated.

-- Will





OUTWATER ~ KEITH J /5G3110 wrote:

> Greetings all - 
> I have just started playing with EMC with the possibility of using EMC to
> control a home-built plasma cutter.
> 
> Sometime in the 'future' I would like to build a large (approx 65 foot) metal
> boat for which CNC cutting files are available.  The high cost of plasma cutting
> (about $30,000 according to the designer!) is what's motivating me to try this 
> (along with the fact that I like to build things and I like to program computers 
> and embedded systems).
> 
> I have successfully built (sim works) EMC as follows:
> redhat 7.0 distro
> kernel 2.2.18
> emc-1.1.17
> rtlinux-3.0
> 
> There were a few issues during the build:
>   a. I had to make a .def file for kernel 2.2.18
>   b. I had to change rtlinux_.def to set the rtlinux version
>   c. I had to add #includes in several source files to get rcslib and emc
>      to compile cleanly.
>   d. I had to add return() statements in several functions to compile cleanly.
>   
> At this point I'd like to contribute to EMC if the maintainers are interested.
> If so, I'm thinking about trying to move EMC from the scripted build process to
> the GNU style 'configure' system using GNU automake and autoconf.  It seems that
> building and installing EMC is one of the most popular topics on the lists.  
> Using the GNU build process would let users type './configure; make install' and 
> be done.
> 
> I don't know too much about autoconf, automake (and the EMC source base for that 
> matter), but I'm interested in learning automake and autoconf and this seems 
> like a good application to use autoconf/automake on.
> 
> If there is any interest in this, how do I submit patches?
> 
> Regards,
> Keith
> 
> Keith Outwater
> Principal Engineer
> Raytheon Missile Systems
> Tucson, AZ
> 
> (520) 794-2518
> vac4050-at-<remove-when-you-mail-me>cae597.rsc.raytheon.com


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