 09 Jul 2004, Stefan Ritt, , Introduction of environment variable MIDASSYS
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Starting from midas version 1.9.4 on, the environment variable 'MIDASSYS'
should be defined and point to the installation directory of midas. The
purpose of that is that add-on packages (like the upcoming ROME system) can
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 09 Jul 2004, Piotr Zolnierczuk, , Introduction of environment variable MIDASSYS
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> Starting from midas version 1.9.4 on, the environment variable 'MIDASSYS'
> should be defined and point to the installation directory of midas. The
> purpose of that is that add-on packages (like the upcoming ROME system) can
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09 Jul 2004, Stefan Ritt, , Introduction of environment variable MIDASSYS
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> Here's my suggestion
> MIDASSYS=/opt/midas-1.9.4 (for example)
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09 Jul 2004, Piotr Zolnierczuk, , Introduction of environment variable MIDASSYS
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> I guess we should follow the "standard" as much as possible. MIDASSYS was inspired by
> ROOTSYS. Now where do people usually install ROOT? Is it /opt/root-x.x.x or something
> else. Some years ago (when I did the last time some linux administration) optional
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09 Jul 2004, John M O'Donnell, , Introduction of environment variable MIDASSYS
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For a long time the "de facto" standard was to spread a package around in many
directories under /usr/local. This proved to be a bad idea, as removing the
package
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12 Jul 2004, Stefan Ritt, , Introduction of environment variable MIDASSYS
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> With POSIX there is a written standard, which says that each pacakge goes in
> it's own
> directory under /opt. eg. /opt/midas. Each package gets to define it's own
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20 Jul 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, , Introduction of environment variable MIDASSYS
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> > Starting from midas version 1.9.4 on, the environment variable 'MIDASSYS' ...
> 2. What will the entire structure tree look like?
>
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21 Jul 2004, Stefan Ritt, , Introduction of environment variable MIDASSYS
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> Where should MIDAS be installed?
I personally don't have any preference, as long as it's in accordance with "the standard"
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06 Sep 2007, Stefan Ritt, Info, Introduction of MIDAS_MAX_EVENT_SIZE
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We had the problem that different experiments used different MAX_EVENT_SIZE
values (the MEG experiment actually 10 MB!). If each experiment changes the
value in midas.h and accidentally commits it, other experiments are affected.
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10 Apr 2007, Dan Gastler, Forum, Interrupt code for VME?
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Hello,
Is there any example code for using midas for interrupt driven data
collection over VME? I am using a Struck SIS3100 PCI/VME setup to connect to my
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24 Aug 2018, Lukas Gerritzen, Forum, Int64 datatype
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I would like to store the address of 1-Wire temperature sensors in a device
driver. However, the supportet data types (as definded around
include/midas.h:311) do not foresee a type large enough.
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25 Aug 2018, Stefan Ritt, Forum, Int64 datatype
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> I would like to store the address of 1-Wire temperature sensors in a device
> driver. However, the supportet data types (as definded around
> include/midas.h:311) do not foresee a type large enough.
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28 Aug 2018, Konstantin Olchanski, Forum, Int64 datatype
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> I would like to store the address of 1-Wire temperature sensors in a device
> driver. However, the supportet data types (as definded around
> include/midas.h:311) do not foresee a type large enough.
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09 Nov 2013, Razvan Stefan Gornea, Forum, Installation problem 
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Hi,
I run into problems while trying to install Midas on Slackware 14.0. In the past
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10 Nov 2013, Stefan Ritt, Forum, Installation problem
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Seems to me a problem with the ODBC library, so maybe Konstantin can comment.
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11 Nov 2013, Konstantin Olchanski, Forum, Installation problem
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> I run into problems while trying to install Midas on Slackware 14.0.
Thank you for reporting this. We do not have any slackware computers so we cannot see these message usually.
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11 Nov 2013, Konstantin Olchanski, Forum, Installation problem
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> > I run into problems while trying to install Midas on Slackware 14.0.
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> b) an actual error in fal.c:
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12 Nov 2013, Stefan Ritt, Forum, Installation problem
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The warnings with the set but unused variables are real. While John O'Donnell proposed:
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13 Nov 2013, Konstantin Olchanski, Forum, Installation problem
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> > I run into problems while trying to install Midas on Slackware 14.0.
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> Thank you for reporting this. We do not have any slackware computers so we cannot see these message usually.
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13 Nov 2013, Stefan Ritt, Forum, Installation problem
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> got around to look at compile messages on ubuntu: in addition to "variable 'error' set but not used" we have these:
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> warning: ignoring return value of 'ssize_t write(int, const void*, size_t)'
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