Core Issues 18 July 2001

Previous status report; 

Some recent issues from PDR development

• linux support: what do we need to tell people to build and run pdrApp?

  • According to Michael Kuss, "v5 compiles with RH6.1 egcs-2.91.66 and cmt v1r8". There are many compiler warnings that should be fixed. (Still) We need a simple mechanism to alert NT developers about linux problems.
  • The LD_LIBRARY_PATH problem seems to have not been a problem. Do our instructions explain the need for "source setup.sh"? The CMT manual is explicit:
        csh> source setup.csh
    is necessary before running an executable.
    But Dan Suson claims,
    "I do know that I don't even get to where pdrApp segfaults if I don't set my library path myself."
     

• The Windows developer/user environment

  Issues with respect to documentation and ease of use have been raised by Bill Atwood's experience. He is putting a "users guide" for himself, that we should consult.

   

• Random number service.

  Serious problem with our scheme of replacing the global pointer to the CLHEP random number engine in each DLL/shareable: it completely misbehaves, even entering an infinite loop, but only if running under the debugger! Currently, the corresponding GismoGenerator code is in an #ifndef _DEBUB ... #endif

   

T. Burnett