found bug in NI-KAL 1.3

[john sargent]

Hello.  I tried the NI-KAL 1.3 kit.  There is a bug in the script bin/installerUtility.sh .
The bug is the use of sed to get the gcc version out of /proc/version  .
Because the excluded subset [^ ] doesn't have a left paran in it, as in [^) ]
the kernel version comes out 3.3.6)  instead of 3.3.6 .
So the compare to the gcc version fails and the script exits.
So I fixed this but I still get an abort on a little helloworld program
that just links to libgpibapi.so .
The abort is around opening /etc/localtime , oh I see it was trying to open
/dev/nipalk and there is no such device.  I will try to find out what /dev/nipalk
was supposed to be and create the node if I can.

The kernel is 2.6.16.18

[Shawn B.]

John,

Thanks for pointing out that bug, I'll make sure it is fixed in the next version.  All of our supported distributions slap some extra strings after the version for example: (gcc version 4.1.0 (SUSE Linux))

Once you have installed NI-KAL 1.3 successfully, then you will probably need to rerun the NI-488.2 installer.  You may want to run updateNIDrivers as well.  Just to be safe you may want to reboot your machine.

If you have done the steps above, and there is no /dev/nipalk, then you may want to take a look at /etc/init.d/nipal to start your debugging.  More then likely some modules are failing to load.

Shawn B.
National Instruments