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Entry  21 Apr 2005, Konstantin Olchanski, Suggestion, Correct MIDASSYS setting? 
    Reply  22 Apr 2005, Stefan Ritt, Suggestion, Correct MIDASSYS setting? 
Message ID: 209     Entry time: 22 Apr 2005     In reply to: 208
Author: Stefan Ritt 
Topic: Suggestion 
Subject: Correct MIDASSYS setting? 
> Current MIDAS versions nag me about setting the env.variable MIDASSYS to the
> "midas installation directory", but I do not have one, so what should I set
> MIDASSYS to? I checkout MIDAS from cvs into /home/olchansk/daq/midas, build it
> there, run it from there. I never do "make install" (I am not "root" on every
> machine; I am not the only MIDAS user on every machine). What should I set
> MIDASSYS to? K.O.

Then set it to /home/olchansk/daq/midas. The reason for MIDASSYS is the same as
for ROOTSYS. Having it allows other packages like ROME to access the Midas source
code, include files and libraries.
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