Precise install with Xenomai

In case you are running on a pristine Ubuntu 10.04LTS or 12.04 install which hasnt seen any use of git, first install the git tools and a helper to pull in dependencies:

 $  sudo apt-get install git-core git-gui dpkg-dev

Now, fetch the development branch from Michael's git repository:

 $ git clone git://git.mah.priv.at/emc2-dev.git linuxcnc-rtos

This puts the project in the directory 'linuxcnc-rtos'. To put the local copy of the project in a different location, just change the last argument of the 'git clone' command. You should only have to do this once.

The commands below generally assume you have now changed to the directory created by the git clone command, so cd into it:

  $ cd linuxcnc-rtos

By default, you will get files from "master", which is not what we want - there are two possible branches to choose from:

 rtos-integration-preview3  - this is based on v2.5_branch
 rtos-integration-preview3-merged-into-master  - this should track current master functionality very closely.

Decide which one you want, and check it out - we assume rtos-integration-preview3 for this example:

 $ git branch --track rtos-integration-preview3 origin/rtos-integration-preview3
 $ git checkout rtos-integration-preview3

Install the build dependencies - this will pull in all packages required to compile linuxcnc:

 $ cd debian
 $ ./configure sim
 $ cd ..
 $ dpkg-checkbuilddeps

This will show a list of packages missing (if any); install those with

 $ sudo apt-get install ....list of missing packages...

Once this is complete, we now configure and build linuxcnc:

 $ cd src
 $ sh autogen.sh
 $ ./configure 
 $  make
 $ sudo make setuid