[Emc-developers] Feature request: #INCLUDE feature for INI files

2014-02-26 Thread Marius Liebenberg
Hi After discussion on the users forum, it would seem that there are several users that would find the feature of including sub INI files, into the main file, by means of a #INCLUDE, of great value. Briefly, when a user does testing on a regular basis or provide support to other users, it many

[Emc-developers] feature request: startup behaviour change request.

2014-02-26 Thread EBo
I had been playing with the v2.6.0 code in master, and noted some time back that the install and setup instructions stated that the end user should run: "mkdir -p ${HOME}/.config/menus/applications-merged" and "cp ${PREFIX}/share/linuxcnc/menus/applications-merged/*xs ${HOME}/.config/me

Re: [Emc-developers] gentoo distro

2014-02-26 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
./build-kernel.sh https://github.com/cdsteinkuehler/linux-dev/blob/master/build_kernel.sh The scripts download a cross-compiler and mainline kernel source if you don't already have them installed (and setup via system.sh). The repository is a fork of the Robert C. Nelson BeagleBone kernel, and b

Re: [Emc-developers] gentoo distro

2014-02-26 Thread Michael Haberler
Am 27.02.2014 um 00:55 schrieb Charles Steinkuehler : > On 2/26/2014 5:24 PM, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: >> On 02/26/2014 03:59 PM, Michael Haberler wrote: >>> an RT-PREEMPT UB build of linuxCNC is Debian-compatible as far as >>> realtime kernels from the stock Debian package stream for >>> i386/

Re: [Emc-developers] gentoo distro

2014-02-26 Thread Michael Haberler
Am 27.02.2014 um 00:24 schrieb Sebastian Kuzminsky : > On 02/26/2014 03:59 PM, Michael Haberler wrote: >>> Beware that for interesting (ie, non-sim) builds, you'll need to provide >>> realtime kernels. Maybe Gentoo already has this, i dont know. Debian >>> (and Ubuntu) did not, >> >> you mig

Re: [Emc-developers] gentoo distro

2014-02-26 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/26/2014 04:55 PM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > So at the moment you're on your own for the boot-loader and > kernel, but once the kernel is up and running, you can leverage > Debian or Ubuntu or the armhf disto of your choice. Do you have build

Re: [Emc-developers] gentoo distro

2014-02-26 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 2/26/2014 5:55 PM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > So at the moment you're on your own for the boot-loader and kernel, but > once the kernel is up and running, you can leverage Debian or Ubuntu or > the armhf disto of your choice. I forgot to mention...by way of example, I took the Debian root fi

Re: [Emc-developers] gentoo distro

2014-02-26 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 2/26/2014 5:24 PM, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: > On 02/26/2014 03:59 PM, Michael Haberler wrote: >> an RT-PREEMPT UB build of linuxCNC is Debian-compatible as far as >> realtime kernels from the stock Debian package stream for >> i386/amd64 go > > Yep i know about that one, but thanks. There's

Re: [Emc-developers] gentoo distro

2014-02-26 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On 02/26/2014 03:59 PM, Michael Haberler wrote: >> Beware that for interesting (ie, non-sim) builds, you'll need to provide >> realtime kernels. Maybe Gentoo already has this, i dont know. Debian >> (and Ubuntu) did not, > > you might have overlooked the already existing RT-PREEMPT kernels in

Re: [Emc-developers] gentoo distro

2014-02-26 Thread Michael Haberler
Seb, Am 26.02.2014 um 23:04 schrieb Sebastian Kuzminsky : > On 2/26/14 13:53 , EBo wrote: >> I was pinging one of the official Gentoo dev's concerning a couple of >> tools I use and a recent new release... Long story short, we started a >> discussion on setting up formal ebuilds for LinuxCNC agai

Re: [Emc-developers] gentoo distro

2014-02-26 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On 2/26/14 13:53 , EBo wrote: > I was pinging one of the official Gentoo dev's concerning a couple of > tools I use and a recent new release... Long story short, we started a > discussion on setting up formal ebuilds for LinuxCNC again, supporting > the sys-kernel/rt-sources. Is there a place in t

Re: [Emc-developers] git and the man9 folder

2014-02-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 26 February 2014 16:00:09 Robert Ellenberg did opine: > Hi All, > > There is a folder called "man9" in the docs/man folder: > > /docs/man/man9 > > As far as I can tell, every file here is generated when building > linuxcnc. Is this the case? It also seems like many of these ".9" fi

Re: [Emc-developers] git and the man9 folder

2014-02-26 Thread andy pugh
On 26 February 2014 20:42, Robert Ellenberg wrote: > /docs/man/man9 > > As far as I can tell, every file here is generated when building linuxcnc. > Is this the case? No, some of them are hand-written. (Several by me) Only the manpages that describe "comp" components are auto-generated, AFAIK.

[Emc-developers] gentoo distro

2014-02-26 Thread EBo
I was pinging one of the official Gentoo dev's concerning a couple of tools I use and a recent new release... Long story short, we started a discussion on setting up formal ebuilds for LinuxCNC again, supporting the sys-kernel/rt-sources. Is there a place in the repository to set up an experim

[Emc-developers] git and the man9 folder

2014-02-26 Thread Robert Ellenberg
Hi All, There is a folder called "man9" in the docs/man folder: /docs/man/man9 As far as I can tell, every file here is generated when building linuxcnc. Is this the case? It also seems like many of these ".9" files are tracked in git. If they are generated on build, then would it hurt anything