[Tinyos-devel] Fwd: [Tinyos-help] Makefile support for motelist on Mac

[Kevin Klues]

I already checked in a fix similar to this about a week ago after
testing on both.

Kevin

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 9:18 AM, David Gay <dgay42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Someone want to check this on Linux, cygwin then check it in?
>
>  David
>
>
>
>
>  ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>  From: Urs Hunkeler <uhu at gmx.ch>
>  Date: Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 9:07 AM
>  Subject: [Tinyos-help] Makefile support for motelist on Mac
>  To: TinyOS <tinyos-help at millennium.berkeley.edu>
>
>
>  Hi,
>
>   I noticed a while ago that on a Mac the Makefile did not properly
>   recognize a tmote connected on a USB port. It seems that Mac OS X uses
>   some fancy interface names for the connected motes like
>   "/dev/tty.usbserial-M4ABD8MF". The regular expression used in the
>   Makefile (tinyos-2.x/support/make/msp/bsl.extra) parses until the first
>   number appears, and then continues to parse only numbers. The reason is
>   that on Windows systems the port number of the serial port has to be
>   recognized. As a consequence the above interface name gets shortened to
>   "/dev/tty.usbserial-M4" (stops once the first non-number symbol appears
>   after a number has been detected).
>
>   To resolve this issue I propose that the regular expression be changed
>   such that it also continues to parse after the number. The following two
>   lines show first the original version and then the proposed modification
>   (the regular expression has to be changed in two places within the
>   mentioned Makefile extension):
>
>   BSLTEST = $(shell motelist -c | perl -e '<> =~ /^[^,]+,(\S+?(\d+))/;
>   print $$1;' )
>
>   BSLTEST = $(shell motelist -c | perl -e '<> =~
>   /^[^,]+,(\S+?(\d+)[^,]*)/; print $$1;' )
>
>   Theoretically this should work on Linux and Windows as it always has (I
>   haven't tested this). In addition it will now also work on Mac OS X.
>
>   Any comments?
>
>   Cheers,
>   Urs
>
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~Kevin