Core Minutes 112/08/2009
Core Minutes 112/08/2009ScienceTools: See this week's brief report in Confluence.
FSSC: (Eric) Will be moving to the new ScienceTools tag, v9r15p6; move is expected to be straightforward.
He is in the process of committing to CVS many small changes needed to get ScienceTools to compile on all the platforms FSSC supports. This should help us with rhel5 64-bit builds.
Documentation: (Chuck) sends the following:
I tagged a new version of the workbook last Friday, and Berrie has updated the mirror site. I've also linked the new gtgrb LAT GRBanalysis tutorial from the Science Tools --> GRB Analysis 2nd-level navigation bar with a note stating that it is for CMT builds only. The gtgrb tool is not yet working with SCons builds and the cause of failure is under investigation. Neither Nicola nor I have been able to get it to perform the likelihood analysis, which fails with an error message stating that "HDU is not a table in extension 'PRIMARY' in field DATA/GRBOUT/080916009/080916_LAT_expMap.fits". Everything continues to work fine with CMT builds.
I'm now following up on Richard's instructions to begin documenting pointlike and sourcelike.
GR:
Pass 7.2 (Heather) There is a new tag along this branch, v17r35p2. It includes a fix Leon made to astro. and enhancements to allow disabling of branches when reading back from ROOT in GR. (Tom) There is no new news on Pass 7.2 repro. The previous repro is being validated by C&A.
More astro (Heather) A newer astro has a final fix for the JIRA bug, GRINF-56. If we made a container package for ft2util as part of the move to SCons we wouldn't have to worry about conflicting versions of astro.
Pass 8 (Tracy) Chief aim at the moment is to make a baseline release before large-scale Pass 8 development gets going and preferably before Heather goes on leave. This release will include updates to CalRecon and packages it depends on as well as Eric Charles' ACD updates. Note that Pass 8 development will occur on the main CVS trunk.
Core talk:
Disk news (Heather) Tomorrow is clean-up day for u30, which has been running around 95%. No complaints so far in response to her email detailing what is to be deleted.
(Tom) New disk servers are being installed! Here's a photo taken yesterday of John Bartelt next to a just unpacked 'Thor'.
ASP and SCons (Joanne) All problems uncovered so far by Jim have been addressed. For details see run-time issues in Confluence.
GR and SCons (Joanne) discovered that overlay packages (OverlayEvent, overlayRootData and Overlay) were not formally a part of GlastRelease-scons since they had not existed when Emmanuel first looked into converting GR to SCons. This has now been remedied and updates have been committed and tagged so that these packages can be built with SCons.
SCons and Windows (Heather, Joanne) Visual Studio 9.0 was installed on our Windows batch machines to see whether that would interfere with 7.1 builds. It did cause a problem for SCons builds because by default SCons will choose the highest version compiler, but it was easily fixed by modifying an SCons RM database entry to add another option (--vc7) to the list with which SCons is called for 7.1 builds.
The next problem is st_graph: in SCons builds, if the st_graph library is built shareable, other links using it fail with duplicate references or unresolved references. Joanne will switch it back to building a static library as it used to 6 months ago.
Now that the SCons checkpoint release is being used everywhere, Joanne's extra SCons support for Windows which was dependent on this release can be committed to the standard production spot in CVS, thus simplifying the procedure for Windows users to get started with SCons.
Externals for GR (Heather) Has a Windows build of ROOT 5.22.00e (with local changes, so actually 5.22.00e-gl1) which is compatible with the new Gaudi needed for Visual Studio 9.0. She will next tackle rhel4 and rhel5. Ideally, it won't be necessary to build it for rhel3 at all (if we drop that OS in the next several weeks), at least she hopes not because chances are neither the new ROOT nor the new Gaudi support it.
Filling Navid's shoes apparently takes several people, but so far, so good. Kim Lo has taken over maintenance of the CMT Release Manager (see Navid's documentation to get an idea what he's up against). If, for example, you notice a "stuck" CMT RM build, let him know via email. Joanne and Heather are responsible for various SCons-related tasks, some of which they have already exercised without dire results — yet.
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