Here is my story. I deployed several Debian Linux boxes as the DAQ systems in our lab. But I feel it's boring to build and install midas and its related softwares (such as root) on each box. So I need a local debian software repository and put midas and its related packages in it. First of all, I need a midas debian package. After a week's study and searching, I finally finished the job. Hope you feel it useful.
All the work is attached as "daq-midas_deb.tar.gz". The detail is followed. I also created several debian packages. But it's too large to be uploaded. I havn't my own site accessible from internet. So, if you need the debian packages, please give me an accessible ftp or other similar service, then I can upload them to you.
First, I use autoconf/automake to rewrite the building system of MIDAS. You can check it this way:
1. Untar daq-midas_deb.tar.gz somewhere, assumming ~/Temp.
2. cd ~/Temp/daq-midas
3. svn co -r 5065 svn+ssh://svn@savannah.psi.ch/repos/meg/midas/trunk midas
4. svn co -r 68 svn+ssh://svn@savannah.psi.ch/repos/meg/mxml/trunk mxml
5. cp -rvp debian/autoconf/* ./
6. ./configure --help
7. ./configure <--options>
8. make && make install
Then, I created the debian packages based on the new building files. You need to install root-system package from http://lcg-heppkg.web.cern.ch/lcg-heppkg/debian/. You can build debs this way:
1. untar daq-midas_deb.tar.gz somewhere, assuming ~/Temp.
2. cd ~/Temp/daq-midas
3. svn co -r 5065 svn+ssh://svn@savannah.psi.ch/repos/meg/midas/trunk midas
4. svn co -r 68 svn+ssh://svn@savannah.psi.ch/repos/meg/mxml/trunk mxml
5. dpkg-buildpackage -b -us -uc
I split the package into serverals parts:
- daq-midas-doc -- The documents and references
- daq-midas-root -- the midas runtime library and utilities built with root
- daq-midas-noroot -- the midas runtime library and utilities built without root
- daq-midas-dev-root -- the midas devel files (headers, objects, drivers, examples) built with root
- daq-midas-dev-noroot -- the midas devel files (headers, objects, drivers, examples) built without root
Here are the installation:
- executalbes -- /usr/lib/daq-midas/bin
- library and objs -- /usr/lib/daq-midas/lib
- headers -- /usr/lib/daq-midas/include
- sources and drivers -- /usr/share/daq-midas/
- docs and examples -- /usr/share/doc/daq-midas
- mdaq-config -- /usr/bin/mdaq-config
I add an auto-generated shell script -- mdaq-config. It behaves just like "root-config". You can get midas build flags and link flags this way:
gcc `mdaq-config --cflags` -c -o myfe.o myfe.c
gcc `mdaq-config --libs` -o myfe myfe.o `mdaq-config --libdir`/mfe.o
Bugs and suggestions are welcomed.
P.S. Based on debian packages, I am planing to write another script, "mdaq.py":
- each midas experiment will be configured in a file named "mdaq.yaml"
- mdaq.py reads the configure file and prepare the daq environment, just like "examples/experiment/start_daq.sh"
- mdaq.py will handle "start/stop/restart/info" about the daq codes.
The attached "mdaq.py" is the old one. |