Andrew's Install Notes

Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 22:50:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: "andrew a." <kn6za1@yahoo.com>

Ok, I installed emc on red hat 6.1 again, this time I took better notes!
 

My setup

  • red hat 6.1  with gcc version egcs 2.91.66
  • gnome workstation install
  • rtlinux-2.2-prepatched.tar.gz file from site listed on linuxcnc.org
  • june 7 emc
    • Just two small differences from the Mandrake Install being that I don't have gcc version 2.95.2 on rh6.1.

     
    First, the rtlinux install

    After following all directions on installing the rtlinux-2.2 kernel, I had two files that needed permissions changed before it would let me see the examples operate. Those files are, rmrtl and insrtl and they are both in the rtlinux-2.2 directory. all other instructions from linuxcnc.org worked flawless.
     

    Now for emc install

    First problem you will come to is that you only need to edit two of the three files referenced on linuxcnc.org.  The rtlinux_2_0.def and the linux_2_0_13.def. Now just DONT do the "fpermissive" edit inside these files. They still need to be changed so they point to rtlinux_2_2, and linux_2_2_14 as linuxcnc.org states.

    It all seemed to compile properly through the emcsh.cc, so no file editing was necassary.

    Moved the following:

    so that emc could find them. just repeated the ./compile, and moved one at a time.  I still got lots of warnings about files being called more than once, but they don't seem to hurt things.
     

    Running EMC

    If you are going to run steppermod.o then comment out the period variable in your .ini file, and have a good time.  Thats all there is too it.
     

    Hope this helps,
     

       Andrew