Re: [Emc-developers] LinuxCNC gathering in Norway - July 5th-7th 2024

2024-04-25 Thread andy pugh
On Tue, 19 Mar 2024 at 02:21, Asle Næss via Emc-developers < emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: The location is a metal workshop 15 minutes drive away from to the > Gardermoen airport (OSL), where there is a lot of space and a hotel only > 5 minutes away by car. We plan to fire up the

Re: [Emc-developers] List of includes for components

2024-04-18 Thread andy pugh
On Thu, 18 Apr 2024 at 11:47, Marius Liebenberg wrote: > > > Are you talking about Python or C? > You can get an idea of the normal ones by looking at the code for halcompile: https://github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/blob/master/src/hal/utils/halcompile.g#L271 This query at github will show you

Re: [Emc-developers] List of includes for components

2024-04-18 Thread andy pugh
On Wed, 17 Apr 2024 at 10:08, Marius Liebenberg wrote: > > Is there a document that lists all the includes (modules) that can be > used to develop a component for linuxcnc? > Not that I know of. Are you talking about Python or C? -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium

Re: [Emc-developers] How closely do we need to adhere to the NIST standard?

2024-04-09 Thread Andy Pugh
> On 9 Apr 2024, at 19:43, Nicklas SB Karlsson wrote: > > There might be requirements for safety reasons but do not think we need to > care about some standard require MDI commands > to be executed only with a physical button. This is actually already the case with Touchy, FWiW. And is one

[Emc-developers] How closely do we need to adhere to the NIST standard?

2024-04-09 Thread andy pugh
Apart from anything else, I am not sure that it is a standard. This is based on bug report #2956. Our current behaviour does not match the NIST RS274 interpreter "report" from 2000. The last actual "RS" standard (ie the RS in RS274) was issued in the 1970s. There is an ISO standard from 1982,

Re: [Emc-developers] IGBT Module Dial-a-Yield Project Ideas

2024-04-05 Thread andy pugh
On Fri, 5 Apr 2024 at 11:59, Curtis Dutton wrote: > I'm starting a new project to build a motor drive based upon igbt modules. > Hoping to build something that has a single type of controller that will > plug and play with various capacity igbt modules for various size motors. Are you aware of

[Emc-developers] Canned cycles on the lathe, in the G19 plane

2024-03-29 Thread andy pugh
it has been pointed out in a bug report that if you run the canned cycles in lathe diameter mode in the G19 plane, then the X axis is in diameter, but the R value (retract position) is in radius. https://github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/issues/2948 I am fairly sure that whatever is done, the R and X

Re: [Emc-developers] make "errors"(?)

2024-03-25 Thread andy pugh
On Sat, 23 Mar 2024 at 22:02, Stuart Stevenson wrote: > > Are any of the reports important or serious? No, that's all normal and as expected. -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is designed for the especial use of mechanical geniuses, daredevils and lunatics."

Re: [Emc-developers] possible documentation error

2024-03-25 Thread andy pugh
On Mon, 25 Mar 2024 at 09:56, Stuart Stevenson wrote: I thought about trying to fix it myself. Would that have been possible for > me to do at my level of participation? I think so, but I don't know for sure. If you find the page in Github:

Re: [Emc-developers] possible documentation error

2024-03-24 Thread andy pugh
On Sat, 23 Mar 2024 at 21:45, Stuart Stevenson wrote: > Should the word disktop be desktop? Fixed -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is designed for the especial use of mechanical geniuses, daredevils and lunatics." — George Fitch, Atlanta Constitution

Re: [Emc-developers] Building from source. Was:Re Status of LinuxCNC in Debian

2024-03-22 Thread andy pugh
On Fri, 22 Mar 2024 at 15:07, Stuart Stevenson wrote: > I have found/installed all the configure dependencies. > A2X stops the make process. There is no A2X in synaptic unless it is in a > python package and not obvious. It's part of asccidoc, I think. Try ./autogen.sh ./configure

[Emc-developers] Building from source. Was:Re Status of LinuxCNC in Debian

2024-03-22 Thread andy pugh
On Fri, 22 Mar 2024 at 14:35, Stuart Stevenson wrote: > Make will not go past a requirement for A2X. Looks like this is a python > file. There are lots of build-time dependencies. You _might_ be able to (from the source root, ie below /src/ ./debian/configure sudo apt-get build-dep -- atp

Re: [Emc-developers] Status of LinuxCNC in Debian

2024-03-22 Thread andy pugh
On Fri, 22 Mar 2024 at 12:56, Stuart Stevenson wrote: > I want to download the source from git. Is there a script of instructions > to get me there? If you only want the code, and don't want to make pull requests etc, then just download this zip file:

[Emc-developers] Status of LinuxCNC in Debian

2024-03-22 Thread andy pugh
Is LinuxCNC currently in Debian? I know that we were due for removal from Testing, and since then I have heard no further updates from Debian about anything at all. -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is designed for the especial use of mechanical geniuses,

[Emc-developers] Possible 2.9.3 Update

2024-03-15 Thread andy pugh
I have been asked if we can release an update to 2.9. Does anyone have anything nearly-ready that they would like to see in 2.9 before the cutoff? Currently I am thinking in terms of next weekend. -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is designed for the especial

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.9.3 release schedule inquiry

2024-03-15 Thread andy pugh
On Fri, 15 Mar 2024 at 20:17, Chris Morley wrote: > I see there are a lot of bug fixes in 2.9. > I am getting a fair amount of request to fix things that are already fixed. > Any rough idea when we might? I will give it some thought, maybe try for next weekend (I should be home) I will drop a

Re: [Emc-developers] This run once problem just won't to away.

2024-03-11 Thread andy pugh
On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 at 00:11, gene heskett wrote: > Since no one has commented I updated to todays build, no help there. > lcnc refuses to move the machine by my code more than once per startup. It sounds like the code leaves a parameter in a state that causes the code to skip. If it isn't

Re: [Emc-developers] Part of my problem with this program

2024-03-08 Thread andy pugh
On Fri, 8 Mar 2024 at 02:29, gene heskett wrote: > is there a way to make it ignore such a false trigger > during the first few milliseconds of the back to center move? My probing routines do a fast probe onto the edge (G38.2) and then a slower move out of contact (G38.4) And I keep the result

Re: [Emc-developers] Found a new show stopper

2024-03-07 Thread andy pugh
On Thu, 7 Mar 2024 at 16:44, gene heskett wrote: > > o > > > > It needs to be > > > > o CALL > > > What line Andy, call is there in line 160 of the main do/while loop, > you've got week old code i think as I've posted two versions. That was from the version you posted 1 hour ago. I can only

Re: [Emc-developers] Found a new show stopper

2024-03-07 Thread andy pugh
As has been said, you are not calling the subroutines. I am surprised that the code even runs. You have o It needs to be o CALL -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is designed for the especial use of mechanical geniuses, daredevils and lunatics." — George

Re: [Emc-developers] Found a new show stopper

2024-03-07 Thread andy pugh
On Thu, 7 Mar 2024 at 00:30, gene heskett wrote: > If there is > any error that stops it, such as a probe trip when not in a probe move, > its all done until shut down, restarted and rehomed. It really shouldn't need a shutdown and restart. -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a

Re: [Emc-developers] Dynamically building a string for a varname?

2024-03-02 Thread Andy Pugh
> On 2 Mar 2024, at 12:35, gene heskett wrote: > > I renamed tholefinder.ngc to tholefinder, Leave the filename the same. Rename the subroutine inside that file. Call it by the subroutine name. ___ Emc-developers mailing list

Re: [Emc-developers] Dynamically building a string for a varname?

2024-03-02 Thread andy pugh
On Fri, 1 Mar 2024 at 23:38, gene heskett wrote: > Well, I seem to be up to the first named subroutine call. But it cannot > find it. Drop the ".ngc" from the subroutine name in the .ngc fle. You have o sub -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is designed for

Re: [Emc-developers] Dynamically building a string for a varname?

2024-03-01 Thread andy pugh
On Fri, 1 Mar 2024 at 08:04, gene heskett wrote: > One last Q in this thread, assuming the machine has been homed and I > want to G38.2 z-70. where contact is expected at about -67mm. But I > occasionally get a stop before contact. Noise? Will #5070 tell me?. No, the system can't tell the

Re: [Emc-developers] Dynamically building a string for a varname?

2024-02-29 Thread andy pugh
On Thu, 29 Feb 2024 at 18:14, gene heskett wrote: > Is it possible to concatenate several string vars into a variable name > in order to access an array of vars No. But you can do this with numbered variables. So #[100 + #3] is a valid construction. -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a

Re: [Emc-developers] got usability problem w/master

2024-02-29 Thread andy pugh
On Wed, 28 Feb 2024 at 17:14, gene heskett wrote: > > The Halshow "Watch" tab can be better for this. > Sounds useful. is it covered by a manpage? https://linuxcnc.org/docs/stable/html/hal/tools.html#_halshow -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is designed for

Re: [Emc-developers] got usability problem w/master

2024-02-29 Thread andy pugh
On Wed, 28 Feb 2024 at 21:29, gene heskett wrote: > and I've copies of it in nc_files and in nc_files/subs, error msg claims > EOF while searching for it. That isn't the most helpful message, it means that it hasn't found the subroutine in the current G-code file (and had got to the end of the

Re: [Emc-developers] got usability problem w/master

2024-02-28 Thread andy pugh
On Wed, 28 Feb 2024 at 11:59, gene heskett wrote: > I often have as many as 8 open while developing code so I can see whats > going on in real time and now I can't see things w/o clicking on them, The Halshow "Watch" tab can be better for this. You can build a list, (and save the layout) and

Re: [Emc-developers] got usability problem w/master

2024-02-28 Thread andy pugh
On Wed, 28 Feb 2024 at 01:14, gene heskett wrote: > Some one since the last time I wrote some gcode on my g0704, has hooked > the hal meter up to focus status I am not aware of any changes made to Halmeter recently. Chris has made some stylesheet changes to QtVCP but I wouldn't expect that to

Re: [Emc-developers] Problems with multi axis behaviour in Gmoccapy nad QTDragon

2024-02-21 Thread andy pugh
On Wed, 7 Feb 2024 at 07:04, Marius wrote: > G49 should not be used with a multi axis machine at all and there should > be an option either on the gui or in the setup to allow the user to make > the choice if they want to use it or not. Can you convert this into an issue report? Otherwise it is

Re: [Emc-developers] Also prepared a Hugging Face LinuxCNC assistant. Aw: Re: LinuxCNC-aware chat bot

2024-02-07 Thread andy pugh
On Wed, 7 Feb 2024 at 11:31, Rod Webster wrote: > > It lied a lot when I asked > > build me a hal file for a 3 axis milling machine that uses a mesa card I got decent answers to "Can I use the carousel HAL component with a Fanuc encoder" and "Can I write a HAL realtime component in Python"

Re: [Emc-developers] Error fetching from buildbot

2024-02-05 Thread andy pugh
On Mon, 5 Feb 2024 at 08:20, Marius wrote: > deb http://buildbot.linuxcnc.org buster 2.9-rtpreempt > deb-src http://linuxcnc.org buster 2.9-rtpreempts They should both be builbot.linuxcnc.org, and it's "preempt" not "preempts" -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment

Re: [Emc-developers] LinuxCNC-aware chat bot

2024-02-04 Thread andy pugh
On Sun, 4 Feb 2024 at 17:51, Steffen Möller via Emc-developers wrote: > I added all in src that ends with .comp or .hal. This is what now happened. I > was a bit surprise by the emphasis on Python. > Copy code > #include "hal.h" > #include > #include > #include > > static int comp_id; //

Re: [Emc-developers] LinuxCNC-aware chat bot

2024-02-02 Thread andy pugh
On Fri, 2 Feb 2024 at 23:43, Steffen Möller via Emc-developers wrote: > GPT 4 after receiving all our documentation: > In HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) configuration for LinuxCNC, traditional > programming constructs like loops (for, while) are not directly supported in > the HAL

Re: [Emc-developers] Repositories for buildbot on bullseye

2024-02-02 Thread andy pugh
On Fri, 2 Feb 2024 at 07:25, Marius wrote: > I need to get master installed to try and get the machines running > again. There seems to be no repository for Bullseye master. How do I go > about getting that please. Try Sebs experimental buildbot: http://buildbot2.highlab.com/ -- atp "A

Re: [Emc-developers] Cannot clone from github

2024-01-31 Thread andy pugh
On Wed, 31 Jan 2024 at 16:35, Marius wrote: > RPC failed; stream was not closed cleanly; CANCEL (err 8) https://gist.github.com/daopk/0a95772d582cafb202142ff7871da2fc Suggests changing to a different network connection for Err 8, but I don't know if that is feasible for you? -- atp "A

Re: [Emc-developers] Raspi stuff in 2.9.2 update

2024-01-22 Thread andy pugh
On Mon, 22 Jan 2024 at 13:30, Marius wrote: > > Rod is it going to stuff up my installation at all? How do I get around it? Did you follow the link I sent? That said what to uninstall and delete. -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is designed for the especial

Re: [Emc-developers] Raspi stuff in 2.9.2 update

2024-01-22 Thread andy pugh
On Mon, 22 Jan 2024 at 09:54, Marius wrote: > Every time I install anything the update process tries to install these > kernel and raspberrypi stuff. Are you using a Pi or not? > How do I get rid of this please? This appears to be a problem in the Debian installer.

Re: [Emc-developers] RPImager problem Aw: Re: RPi5 + Raspbian + LinuxCNC latency tests - first impressions

2024-01-01 Thread andy pugh
On Mon, 1 Jan 2024 at 13:57, andy pugh wrote: > Try not doing that? The RPi Imager will accept a .xz file. > I just wrote the Pi5 XZ straight to an SD card with no complaints. Oh, wait, you mean Rod's latest images? The one at www.linuxcnc.org seem to work. -- atp "A motorcycle i

Re: [Emc-developers] RPImager problem Aw: Re: RPi5 + Raspbian + LinuxCNC latency tests - first impressions

2024-01-01 Thread andy pugh
On Mon, 1 Jan 2024 at 13:12, Steffen Möller via Emc-developers wrote: > I downloaded the RPi5 image , ran xz -dt on it with no complaint Try not doing that? The RPi Imager will accept a .xz file. I just wrote the Pi5 XZ straight to an SD card with no complaints. -- atp "A motorcycle is a

Re: [Emc-developers] Merge 2.9 to master

2023-12-31 Thread andy pugh
On Sun, 31 Dec 2023 at 12:14, Hans Unzner wrote: > You mean via Github by the author of the PR? Not sure if that will work. > Better that the person who merges it keep track of it. That assumes that the person who accepts the merge understands the code as well as the one creating the code,

Re: [Emc-developers] Merge 2.9 to master

2023-12-31 Thread andy pugh
On Sun, 31 Dec 2023 at 11:50, Hans Unzner wrote: > > Is it the job of the person who accepts the PR to merge it upstream? > > Or a secondary task for the Pull Requestor? > > > I think it would be the best if the person who accepts the PR or the > persons who makes changes which could cause

Re: [Emc-developers] Merge 2.9 to master - Partially completed

2023-12-31 Thread andy pugh
Chris M: Can you look at linuxcnc/lib/python/qtvcp/qt_pstat.py? Based on commit dates I think you probably wanted both sets of changes in? (functions mportDefaultHandler from 2.9 and isUsingDefaultHandler + getQSSPaths from master? Håvard F. Aasen: Can you take a look at emcrsh.cc lines 573-584 &

Re: [Emc-developers] Merge 2.9 to master

2023-12-31 Thread andy pugh
On Sun, 31 Dec 2023 at 10:58, Hans Unzner wrote: > > It's been a while since 2.9 was merged to master (almost 3 months). I suppose that's one of the drawbacks of working through pull-requests. Is it the job of the person who accepts the PR to merge it upstream? Or a secondary task for the Pull

Re: [Emc-developers] RPi5 + Raspbian + LinuxCNC latency tests - first impressions

2023-12-29 Thread andy pugh
On Sat, 30 Dec 2023 at 00:27, Steffen Möller via Emc-developers wrote: > Andy's image was a success - I just did not know the passwords. I mentioned it in a previous message, but it is cnc / cnc -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is designed for the especial

Re: [Emc-developers] RPi5 + Raspbian + LinuxCNC latency tests - first impressions

2023-12-29 Thread andy pugh
On Fri, 29 Dec 2023 at 17:56, andy pugh wrote: > Let me look to see what I have. Try this one rpi-5-debian-bookworm-6.1.61-rt15-arm64-ext4-2023-11-17-1520.img.xz Raspi-imager can work directly with .xz files, no need to expand. Note that you need to use menu-config to set up the W

Re: [Emc-developers] RPi5 + Raspbian + LinuxCNC latency tests - first impressions

2023-12-29 Thread andy pugh
On Sat, 30 Dec 2023 at 03:53, andy pugh wrote: > That's odd. I am replying to this email on _my_ Pi5 and it works fine. > I can't remember the exact details of how I got here, Looking further, almost certainly not with the image from linuxcnc.org/iso as that was built a month

Re: [Emc-developers] RPi5 + Raspbian + LinuxCNC latency tests - first impressions

2023-12-29 Thread andy pugh
On Sat, 30 Dec 2023 at 02:23, Steffen Möller via Emc-developers wrote: > I just went for it and it does not work for the RPi5 - stating that the > device tree would not be found and that the bcm2712-rpi-5-b.dtb cannot be > found. That's odd. I am replying to this email on _my_ Pi5 and it

Re: [Emc-developers] RPi5 + Raspbian + LinuxCNC latencytests-firstimpressions

2023-12-28 Thread andy pugh
On Thu, 28 Dec 2023 at 20:35, Rod Webster wrote: > Its really too late to offer solutions now, get behind the current build > process and work with it. You mean where I build the images by hand over the course of weeks? I don't think that's the ideal solution. -- atp "A motorcycle is a

Re: [Emc-developers] RPi5 + Raspbian + LinuxCNC latency tests - first impressions

2023-12-28 Thread andy pugh
On Thu, 28 Dec 2023 at 14:07, Daniel Hiepler wrote:oot I had no more Wifi and (worse) the ventilator was a max > > I encountered similar problems and decided to build my own kernel. I created > a "fire & forget" bash script to build an image from the ground up and > compiles linuxcnc+rt kernel

Re: [Emc-developers] RPi5 + Raspbian + LinuxCNC latency tests-firstimpressions

2023-12-28 Thread Andy Pugh
> On 28 Dec 2023, at 12:55, gene heskett wrote: > > Any chance of updating the buildbots page yellow table? I can’t. I have no access to the buildbot. Anyway, the buildbot doesn’t build anything for arm64. ___ Emc-developers mailing list

Re: [Emc-developers] RPi5 + Raspbian + LinuxCNC latency tests-first impressions

2023-12-28 Thread andy pugh
On Thu, 28 Dec 2023 at 03:24, gene heskett wrote: > All packages are up to date. > W: Skipping acquire of configured file '2.9-rt/source/Sources' as > repository 'https://www.linuxcnc.org bookworm InRelease' does not seem > to provide it (sources.list entry misspelt?) There isn't a 2.9-rt for

Re: [Emc-developers] RPi5 + Raspbian + LinuxCNC latency tests - first impressions

2023-12-27 Thread andy pugh
On Thu, 28 Dec 2023 at 01:15, andy pugh wrote: > http://linuxcnc.org/docs/stable/html/getting-started/getting-linuxcnc.html#_raspberry_pi_image Sorry, the link to the image is higher up the same page: http://linuxcnc.org/docs/stable/html/getting-started/getting-linuxcnc.html#_normal_downl

Re: [Emc-developers] RPi5 + Raspbian + LinuxCNC latency tests - first impressions

2023-12-27 Thread andy pugh
On Thu, 28 Dec 2023 at 00:58, Steffen Möller via Emc-developers wrote: > I looked through our documentation today but did not find anything beyond the > use of RPi GPIOs. http://linuxcnc.org/docs/stable/html/getting-started/getting-linuxcnc.html#_raspberry_pi_image And (same page)

Re: [Emc-developers] RPi5 + Raspbian + LinuxCNC latency tests - first impressions

2023-12-27 Thread andy pugh
On Wed, 27 Dec 2023 at 15:20, Steffen Möller via Emc-developers wrote: > My RPi5 arrived over Xmas and I just fired it up, was offered to install > LinuxCNC directly from what we offer in Debian, and then ran latency tests. > Graphics (as in video but also the extra art from your X interface

Re: [Emc-developers] Bug#1055493: linuxcnc-uspace, linuxcnc-uspace-dev: both packages ship the manpages

2023-12-19 Thread andy pugh
On Mon, 18 Dec 2023 at 18:31, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > > However I haven't so far worked out why the man3 sections are being > > included in the main package installer. > > (the commands in man3 are only of interest to developers) > > From >

Re: [Emc-developers] .po and .pot files in git

2023-12-17 Thread andy pugh
On Sun, 17 Dec 2023 at 21:40, Hans Unzner wrote: > If you think the files are generated correctly, you should commit them. They probably are, but how would I tell? -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is designed for the especial use of mechanical geniuses,

[Emc-developers] .po and .pot files in git

2023-12-17 Thread andy pugh
When I do test builds on my local machine I seem to create new .po and ,pot files. These show up as uncommitted changes in Git, and prevent rebasing etc. What is the right thing to do with these? -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is designed for the especial

Re: [Emc-developers] Debian bug 1055493 is going to get us removd from Debian

2023-12-16 Thread andy pugh
On Sat, 16 Dec 2023 at 19:27, andy pugh wrote: > And I have no idea how to even test this, let alone fix it. A not very productive chat on the debian IRC suggests that dh_installman spiders the temp directories and installs all manpages that it finds, regardless of what the .install fi

[Emc-developers] Debian bug 1055493 is going to get us removd from Debian

2023-12-16 Thread andy pugh
Does anyone have any ideas about this? https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1055493 I don’t understand it. If you: wget http://buildbot2.highlab.com/debian/dists/bookworm/2.9-uspace/binary-amd64/linuxcnc-uspace_2.9.0.97.g052a73adc4_amd64.deb then: dpkg -c

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.9.2

2023-12-15 Thread andy pugh
On Sun, 10 Dec 2023 at 10:36, Steffen Möller via Emc-developers wrote: > Please allow me to fix the double-installation of that one manual page prior > to the release. Did you get anywhere with this? I have looked through the files in /debian and can't see how or why that would happen. Is

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.9.2

2023-12-10 Thread andy pugh
Github CI is failing with: E: Failed to fetch http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/linux-signed-amd64/linux-image-6.1.0-14-rt-amd64_6.1.64-1_amd64.deb 403 Access denied - broken package [IP: 199.232.30.132 80] E: Failed to fetch

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.9.2

2023-12-10 Thread andy pugh
On Sun, 10 Dec 2023 at 10:36, Steffen Möller via Emc-developers wrote: > Please allow me to fix the double-installation of that one manual page prior > to the release. I think it's a double-installation of all of the man3 folder? I was expecting to fix that myself, but I am more than happy for

[Emc-developers] 2.9.2

2023-12-09 Thread andy pugh
There are a number of important bug fixes waiting for release (including that I broke run-from-line in Axis. Oops). I plan to make a 2.9.2 release in the next few days. This is largely predicated on me figuring out how to fix the Bullseye builds, which looks to be just putting the newer po4a

Re: [Emc-developers] Bug#1056990: src:linuxcnc: fails to migrate to testing for too long: unresolved RC issue

2023-12-07 Thread andy pugh
On Thu, 7 Dec 2023 at 18:03, Hans Unzner wrote: > Why do you think there is more to do than to fix the man page issue? Because, once the change is made, someone then needs to make a source package to upload to Debian, which is a fair bit of effort, and which we have no way to test (that I am

Re: [Emc-developers] removed subdor in tests on linuxcnc branch linuxcnc-barwidget

2023-11-29 Thread andy pugh
On Mon, 27 Nov 2023 at 06:59, Thomas J Powderly wrote: > That breaks build , so I removed tests/pyvcp-bar ( git rm ...) You could have added an empty file called "skip" to the test folder: See: https://linuxcnc.org/docs/2.9/html/code/writing-tests.html Also, don't get too hung-up on your

Re: [Emc-developers] Bug#1056990: src:linuxcnc: fails to migrate to testing for too long: unresolved RC issue

2023-11-28 Thread andy pugh
On Tue, 28 Nov 2023 at 15:45, Steffen Möller wrote: > We will not be part of the next Debian release if we do not fix (or otherwise > close) the bugs reported against our package. It looks like a simple fix, possibly, as it is just the man3 pages:

Re: [Emc-developers] Strange error in multi axis mode

2023-11-28 Thread andy pugh
On Mon, 27 Nov 2023 at 17:51, Marius wrote: > We get a joint following error every time the gcode program comes to an > end or when we stop the run mode. This sounds like it happens when you transition from coordinated mode to free / teleop mode. Which aligns with what Chris is saying. During

Re: [Emc-developers] Bug#1056990: src:linuxcnc: fails to migrate to testing for too long: unresolved RC issue

2023-11-28 Thread andy pugh
On Mon, 27 Nov 2023 at 16:17, Paul Gevers wrote: > The Release Team considers packages that are out-of-sync between testing > and unstable for more than 30 days as having a Release Critical bug in > testing [1]. Can anyone explain what this means? I understand the words but not what they mean

Re: [Emc-developers] Looking for rtapi_shmem example between RT- C comp and Uspace Python comp?

2023-11-17 Thread andy pugh
On Fri, 17 Nov 2023 at 15:44, Ted wrote: > I am looking to be able to share some large [fixed] co-ordinate value > arrays between a realtime component, but source it from an external flat > file (via a complementary userspace component). Is this related to wanting to do height mapping, or laser

Re: [Emc-developers] interpreter errors and motion

2023-11-13 Thread andy pugh
On Fri, 20 Oct 2023 at 22:10, John Allwine wrote: > I'm hoping someone might have some insight into an error I encountered > today. I have a roughly 11,000 line G code program, with a bad cutter > compensation code (Length of cutter compensation entry move is not greater > than the tool radius)

Re: [Emc-developers] Upcoming stable point release (12.3)

2023-11-12 Thread andy pugh
On Sun, 12 Nov 2023 at 17:54, andy pugh wrote: > > Can we try to get a bugfix for > https://github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/issues/2587 into this? This also has a Debian bug number too: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1053251 -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicycle with

[Emc-developers] Fwd: Upcoming stable point release (12.3)

2023-11-12 Thread andy pugh
Can we try to get a bugfix for https://github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/issues/2587 into this? I have already prepared a file to upload, but don't know if it is of the right type. (Should it be a diff file rather than a full new source?) -- Forwarded message - From: Adam D. Barratt

Re: [Emc-developers] Bug#1055493: linuxcnc-uspace, linuxcnc-uspace-dev: both packages ship the manpages

2023-11-07 Thread andy pugh
On Tue, 7 Nov 2023 at 10:45, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > > Package: linuxcnc-uspace,linuxcnc-uspace-dev > Version: 2.9.1-2 > Severity: serious > User: debian...@lists.debian.org > Usertags: piuparts > > Hi, > > during a test with piuparts I noticed your package failed to install > because it tries

[Emc-developers] Fwd: Fw: RTAI Package Building Failure

2023-10-31 Thread andy pugh
-- Forwarded message - From: Alec Ari Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2023 at 02:32 Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] Fw: RTAI Package Building Failure To: andy pugh , EMC Developers My emails aren't getting through to the mailing list anymore.. I haven't seen that error before, is asciidoc

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.9.1 Release Status

2023-10-30 Thread andy pugh
On Mon, 30 Oct 2023 at 09:43, Rod Webster wrote: > > Must be a modified one. The one you forked from me should have used the > bookworm branch I switched from buildbot2 to linuxcnc.org before building the installer. I don't know what the long term plan is for buildbot2, and also it doesn't seem

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.9.1 Release Status

2023-10-30 Thread andy pugh
On Mon, 30 Oct 2023 at 03:56, Rod Webster wrote: > > was in fact due to a malformed repository entry on the test PC. > Was this due to my installer or something in your environment? I don't know at this point. I have forgotten the history of the VM in question. But as it is called "Bookworm

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.9.1 Release Status

2023-10-29 Thread andy pugh
It seems that, once again, I was impossibly optimistic. I have spent much of the day trying to go through the install process to check that it works, only to find that a problem that I thought _had_ to be something wrong in the repository structure / file lists was in fact due to a malformed

[Emc-developers] 2.9.1 Release Status

2023-10-27 Thread andy pugh
To an extent, 2.9.1 has already been released, but I have not made the announcement yet as I was wanting to be able to offer RTAI debs too. So far we have debs for uspace in linuxcnc.org/dists for Buster, Bullseye and Bookworm. There are also RTAI kernel debs and mesaflash debs in /dists/ too.

Re: [Emc-developers] Fw: RTAI Package Building Failure

2023-10-24 Thread andy pugh
On Tue, 24 Oct 2023 at 23:46, Alec Ari via Emc-developers wrote: > mv debian/linuxcnc/usr/share/doc/linuxcnc/examples > debian/linuxcnc/usr/share/doc/linuxcnc > mv: cannot stat 'debian/linuxcnc/usr/share/doc/linuxcnc/examples': No such > file or directory I found that, though not the "why"

Re: [Emc-developers] Fw: RTAI Package Building Failure

2023-10-24 Thread andy pugh
I am seeing something very strange, there are two files (Master_Documentation and drivers/mb2hal) that keep failing with: make[2]: *** No rule to make target 'depends/drivers/mb2hal.d', needed by 'Makefile'. Stop. make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/andypugh/linuxcnc-dev/src' make[1]: ***

Re: [Emc-developers] Fw: RTAI Package Building Failure

2023-10-24 Thread andy pugh
On Tue, 24 Oct 2023 at 01:41, Rod Webster wrote: > > > Still can't build a package, the system really does seem to be > > impossible to persuade to not build docs > > Steffan put a PR forward to enable this the debian way > https://github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/pull/2647 I can try it, but I am

Re: [Emc-developers] Fw: RTAI Package Building Failure

2023-10-23 Thread andy pugh
Alec: Do the tests pass with your run-in-place build, by the way? I am getting some odd errors in the maths tests, but not ones that seem to be related to maths. They actually look like a permissions problem with the temp directory. Still can't build a package, the system really does seem to be

Re: [Emc-developers] RTAI Package Building Failure

2023-10-23 Thread andy pugh
On Mon, 23 Oct 2023 at 09:08, andy pugh wrote: > > > As for the failing modules, the problem is that when you build LinuxCNC > > Debian packages, you're in the top directory of LinuxCNC, _not_ the src > > directory. In linuxcnc/src/Makefile, the value of M is $(PWD) howeve

Re: [Emc-developers] RTAI Package Building Failure

2023-10-23 Thread andy pugh
On Mon, 23 Oct 2023 at 04:22, Alec Ari via Emc-developers wrote: > As for the failing modules, the problem is that when you build LinuxCNC > Debian packages, you're in the top directory of LinuxCNC, _not_ the src > directory. In linuxcnc/src/Makefile, the value of M is $(PWD) however when >

Re: [Emc-developers] RTAI Package Building Failure

2023-10-22 Thread andy pugh
On Mon, 23 Oct 2023 at 00:15, Alec Ari via Emc-developers wrote: > > One thing to try, revert 3ee51e306bbe93d424dcdcc8429feaf0b9d6ef02 Yes, that looks promising. > Thanks for the command lines, will dig soon. You can also try ./debian/configure -r no-docs (I tried --no-docs and that didn't

Re: [Emc-developers] RTAI Package Building Failure

2023-10-22 Thread andy pugh
On Sun, 22 Oct 2023 at 22:44, Alec Ari via Emc-developers wrote: > > What on the command line do you pass to trigger building LinuxCNC against > RTAI? I'll need the full ./debian/configure stuff and the dpkg-buildpackage > strings and whatever else is required. Treat me like I'm a total Debian

Re: [Emc-developers] RTAI Package Building Failure

2023-10-22 Thread Andy Pugh
> On 22 Oct 2023, at 21:36, Alec Ari via Emc-developers > wrote: > > As a sanity check, have you done the same to ensure your RTAI environment is > all good? Just a quick run-in-place install for testing. Yes, I have been building and running RIP with RTAI continuously. Compiling works

[Emc-developers] RTAI Package Building Failure

2023-10-22 Thread andy pugh
I reverted the change which removed the ability to build RTAI packages (https://github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/commit/6f285604ac1a1b58b2d65d5904ffec3998a833ef ) and I have created a new branch to build RTAI debs ( https://github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/tree/andypugh/2.9_rtai ) However I am not

Re: [Emc-developers] adding library requirement to pyvcp_widgets

2023-10-22 Thread andy pugh
On Sun, 22 Oct 2023 at 13:47, Thomas J Powderly wrote: > Any problems with adding importlib? I don't see any, but I am not really one of the Pythonati. -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is designed for the especial use of mechanical geniuses, daredevils and

Re: [Emc-developers] got nother bug in master

2023-10-19 Thread andy pugh
On Wed, 18 Oct 2023 at 11:49, gene heskett wrote: > no place > to spec it as an RN tool. What's an RN tool? Radius Nose? I am fairly sure that the Axis Preview knows nothing about that. (and as it only plits the tool tip centre, it is probably only a cosmetic issue) -- atp "A motorcycle is a

Re: [Emc-developers] lcnc bug in master?

2023-10-14 Thread andy pugh
On Sat, 14 Oct 2023 at 03:10, gene heskett wrote: > What I found may not actually be linuxcnc, but in linux itself. All the > indications are that its a stale cache problem. The only way to get the > edited code into linuxcnc is to use the pulldown to load it by displayed > name, which

[Emc-developers] German PDFs

2023-10-13 Thread andy pugh
When I decided that it was time to release 2.9.0 I did that partly based on apparently clean builds on the buildbot. But it looks like the BB doesn't try to build PDFs? Does anyone know why my builds fail at the point that dpkg tries to move the PDFs into place? -- atp "A motorcycle is a

Re: [Emc-developers] RFC: Reduce number of HAL pin types.

2023-10-12 Thread andy pugh
On Thu, 12 Oct 2023 at 04:05, Chris Morley wrote: . > I assume you would use a feature branch to start anyways, so we could see > what problems crop up and assess. Yes, this is definitely not something to drop straight into master. (or 2.9) -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a

Re: [Emc-developers] RFC: Reduce number of HAL pin types.

2023-10-11 Thread andy pugh
On Wed, 11 Oct 2023 at 20:33, Rod Webster wrote: > Look, I am only a casual programmer that dabbles on the fringes. You > guys are going to do what you want to do. But the point I wanted to > make is there are likely many cases you have not considered that could > break and some of them won't

Re: [Emc-developers] RFC: Reduce number of HAL pin types.

2023-10-11 Thread andy pugh
On Wed, 11 Oct 2023 at 14:09, Rod Webster wrote: > If the hal_u32_t Word in this instance is changed to an S64, how can you > guarantee that the S64 is mapped back to the hal_u32_t when it's written > back to the Ethercat drive that has an externally defined register size? The EtherCAT drive

Re: [Emc-developers] RFC: Reduce number of HAL pin types.

2023-10-11 Thread andy pugh
On Wed, 11 Oct 2023 at 12:08, John Allwine wrote: > > Seems like there could be a significant performance hit for 32 bit > architectures. We don’t directly use LinuxCNC, but EMCApplication is a > shallow fork of LinuxCNC that will occasionally pull from upstream. We use > EMCApplication on the

Re: [Emc-developers] RFC: Reduce number of HAL pin types.

2023-10-11 Thread andy pugh
On Wed, 11 Oct 2023 at 12:01, Rod Webster wrote: > > Here is another example where a 16 bit word is decoded into individual pins > but the word is also used as a pin Well, it shouldn't be The size of "unsigned int" is platform dependent, all HAL components should be using the HAL types for

Re: [Emc-developers] RFC: Reduce number of HAL pin types.

2023-10-11 Thread andy pugh
On Wed, 11 Oct 2023 at 11:11, Nicklas SB Karlsson wrote: > Encoders are commonly used in Linuxcnc and do overflow. However not sure > if this i a big problem since it fit inside a double. That's one of the things I want to fix. > Then there is for example a double output a unsigned or signed

Re: [Emc-developers] RFC: Reduce number of HAL pin types.

2023-10-11 Thread andy pugh
On Wed, 11 Oct 2023 at 10:58, Nicklas SB Karlsson wrote: > Have programmed for many years and some programming languages have quite > hard check if data types fit together and think this in general is a > good feature. And I have programmed _HAL_ for over 10 years, and so think that in this

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