sPHENIX MAPS tracker discussion

[Martin Purschke <purschke AT bnl.gov>]

All,

Jo and I discussed this offline a bit -

Our binaries and libs must generally be selected from what is centrally 
defined as $ONLINE_MAIN. (Experts sometimes deviate from that during 
development and debugging).

We make it so that this is set in a system- and OS-dependent fashion, so 
system pick up the right architecture. And so that only experts can mess 
with this, and to protect against inadvertent changes, the installation 
is made and is owned by the "sphnxbuild" account.

So on your systems we get

> purschke@mvtx-flx0:~$ echo $ONLINE_MAIN
> /home/repo/CentOS7

So for this to be a mostly fool-proof procedure, we have an install 
script that goes through the areas that are getting built (like the 
TPC-FELIX stuff only on the Debians, etc etc), we have a script ( 
/home/sphnxbuild/pro_installation/CentOS/install_all.sh) that goes 
through "all" and installs the various projects. It has the ability to 
selectively install only one, for example, with

sh install_all.sh rcdaq

will only go to the rcdaq area, perform a git pull, and make a default 
installation.

Here are the issues. The mvtx-plugin doesn't adhere to our standard 
setup with an autogen.sh and so on, but uses a cmake-based install that 
defeats that scheme.

cmake on Centos is generally deemed evil because of the stone-old version -

> purschke@mvtx-flx0:~$ cmake --version
> cmake version 2.8.12.2

while everyone else is on some 3.x version, like 3.18.4. (You cannot 
even rebuild root with that because it needs 3.x). But never mind that, 
we will trip over all this if this doesn't use a standard install procedure.

Ok, I checked this out and tried a manual cmake-install to get going.

> sphnxbuild@seb10:~$ cd pro_installation/CentOS/mvtx_rcdaq_plugin/build/
> sphnxbuild@seb10:~/pro_installation/CentOS/mvtx_rcdaq_plugin/build$ cmake ..
> -- Detecting RCDAQ installation at /home/repo/CentOS7.
> CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:37 (message):
>   -- Cannot find FELIX.
>
>
> -- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
> See also 
> "/home/sphnxbuild/pro_installation/CentOS/mvtx_rcdaq_plugin/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".

It looks like "FELIX" is meant to be set to (but please tell me what 
it's supposed to be)

FELIX_ROOT=/home/mvtx/software

but...

> sphnxbuild@seb10:~/pro_installation/CentOS/mvtx_rcdaq_plugin/build$ export 
> FELIX_ROOT=/home/mvtx/software
> sphnxbuild@seb10:~/pro_installation/CentOS/mvtx_rcdaq_plugin/build$ cmake ..
> -- Detecting RCDAQ installation at /home/repo/CentOS7.
> -- Detecting FELIX installation at /home/mvtx/software.
> -- Detecting BOOST headers at /usr/include
> -- Configuring done
> -- Generating done
> -- Build files have been written to: 
> /home/sphnxbuild/pro_installation/CentOS/mvtx_rcdaq_plugin/build
> sphnxbuild@seb10:~/pro_installation/CentOS/mvtx_rcdaq_plugin/build$ make
> [ 25%] Building CXX object 
> CMakeFiles/rcdaqplugin_felix.dir/daq_device_felix.cc.o
> /home/sphnxbuild/pro_installation/CentOS/mvtx_rcdaq_plugin/daq_device_felix.cc:
>  In member function ‘virtual int daq_device_felix::put_data(int, int*, int)’:
> /home/sphnxbuild/pro_installation/CentOS/mvtx_rcdaq_plugin/daq_device_felix.cc:155:47:
>  error: ‘volatile struct dma_status_t’ has no member named ‘current_address’
>               dmaCurrAddr = _dmaStat[ipacket]->current_address;
>                                                ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

What I'm asking is to please make it so that a standard install will 
succeed. Looking at the installation script above, here is the essence:


> BUILD_AREA=${OLD_PWD}/build/${PROJECT}
>
> git pull
> echo $BUILD_AREA
>
> # if there is no build area, make on
> [ -d $BUILD_AREA ] || mkdir -p $BUILD_AREA
>
> cd $BUILD_AREA
> EXTRA=
> [ $PROJECT = rcdaq ] && EXTRA="--enable-WRITEPRDF"
> $OLD_PWD/$PROJECT/autogen.sh $EXTRA --prefix=$ONLINE_MAIN
> make  install

You can look up any project, such as rcdaq itself, for the template.

Thanks,
        Martin


On 6/5/23 14:10, Martin Purschke via sPHENIX-MAPS-l wrote:
> All,
>
> should we hop in the DAQ Meeting zoom?
>
> https://bnl.zoomgov.com/j/1605543713?pwd=Z2QvUDFWMDFuOExPMHh3bnMrYlZIQT09
>
> I'm hanging out there...
>
>
> Martin


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