[Emc-developers] Apologies for the Newbie question

[Rob G. <rob...@nt...>]

Dear All at emc-developers,

please accept my most profound apolgies for asking such a fundamental =
question,=20
but its a while since I did any serious programming and I've just got =
totally stuck.

I am trying to compile EMC to run on a Redhat 8 system.  I've downloaded =
the=20
rtlinux-3.2-pre3 patch, recompiled a linux ver 2_4_20 kernel, configured =
and run
rtlinux, no problem - have the regression tests running and rtlinux =
starts up and=20
reports that it can load its modules.

Now I try to download emc and rcslib from sourceforge - can't get the =
rcslib via=20
cvs update - just times out or reports strange errors.  Even more =
fundamental=20
than that, the integrator.pdf doc says to 'cd emc/plat/realtime/include' =
(p27) -=20
which doesn't actually exist -so the instructions seem to be duff to me. =
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In fact, the instructions in this file seem to refer to all sorts of =
different versions=20
of linux, different kernel, different sources and versions of emc and =
rcslib - and=20
none of them seem to be complete or correct - none of them take you from =
start=20
to finish, download, compile, run.

Does this information exist anywhere or does everyone go through the =
pain=20
of working this all out for themselves ? I guess I'm just not looking in =
the=20
right places, but at this point, I can't find any instructions for =
correctly=20
compiling and installing emc and rcslib using rtlinux_3.2_pre3 and a=20
kernel version of 2_4_20.  Am I trying to do something that I shouldn't =
be ?

Any assistance would be very greatfully recieved - been bashing my head=20
up against this for two days now and getting nowhere fast !

TIA,
rob gwynne