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    Reply  04 Feb 2020, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, Compiling Midas in OS 10.15 Catalina  
> > > I have updated our daq computer to the latest OS 10.15 ...
> > 
> > FWIW, I do not have macos 10.15. I have 10.13 at home and 10.14 in the office. Maybe Stefan has it?
> 
> No, I'm stuck with 10.14 due to the current lack of 64-bit support of some programs.
> 

Ok, in this case, I will update my office mac mini to 10.15.

K.O.
    Reply  06 Feb 2020, Berta Beltran, Bug Report, Compiling Midas in OS 10.15 Catalina  
> 
> Ok, in this case, I will update my office mac mini to 10.15.
> 
> K.O.


Hi Konstantin, 

Any luck with Midas in OS 10.15? 
I have downgraded to Xcode 10.2.1 as suggested in the post linked in my first post, without any luck, I keep getting the same pthead.h error. 
MY gcc uses the 10.15 sdk despite having v 10.2.1 for Xcode and command line tools 

Darrens-Mac-mini:~ betacage$ gcc --version
Configured with: --prefix=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr --with-gxx-include-
dir=/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX10.15.sdk/usr/include/c++/4.2.1
Apple LLVM version 10.0.1 (clang-1001.0.46.4)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin19.3.0
Thread model: posix
InstalledDir: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin


and that is where I suspect the problem is. Will keep investigating next week. Thanks for your help.

Berta 
    Reply  10 Feb 2020, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, Compiling Midas in OS 10.15 Catalina  
> Any luck with Midas in OS 10.15? 

Best I can tell, the problem is not in midas: pthread.h should be there, somewhere.

K.O.
    Reply  11 Feb 2020, Berta Beltran, Bug Report, Compiling Midas in OS 10.15 Catalina  
> > Any luck with Midas in OS 10.15? 
> 
> Best I can tell, the problem is not in midas: pthread.h should be there, somewhere.
> 
> K.O.


HI Konstain, 

Thanks for your reply. I have been investigating this issue of pthread in OS 10.15.  Found this forum post 
https://github.com/wjakob/nori/issues/16

that seem to suggest that pthread.h is in a different directory from OS 10.14 and on. And the end of the post the 
developer suggests that he has found a way to fix the Cmake to work so I have checked his code updates in here 
https://github.com/wjakob/nori/commit/be46cccc01a75b21dad1a3f61baa108fe644fc4b

I have added his lines 


if(APPLE)
   # Try to auto-detect a suitable SDK
   execute_process(COMMAND bash -c "xcodebuild -version -sdk | grep MacOSX | grep Path | head -n 1 | cut -f 2 -
d ' '" OUTPUT_VARIABLE CMAKE_OSX_SYSROOT)
   string(REGEX REPLACE "(\r?\n)+$" "" CMAKE_OSX_SYSROOT "${CMAKE_OSX_SYSROOT}")
   string(REGEX REPLACE "^.*X([0-9.]*).sdk$" "\\1" CMAKE_OSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET 
"${CMAKE_OSX_SYSROOT}")
 endif()

to my local pakages/midas/CMakeLists.txt and run cmake .., make install again but now I get a different error 

[  1%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/mfeo.dir/src/mfe.cxx.o
clang: error: invalid version number in '-mmacosx-version-
min=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/DriverKit19.0.sdk'
clang: warning: using sysroot for 'DriverKit' but targeting 'MacOSX' [-Wincompatible-sysroot]


I will continue investigating this issue tomorrow, but please let me know if you have any suggestions.

Also my version of cmake is 3.16.3

Thanks 

Berta 
    Reply  11 Feb 2020, Stefan Ritt, Bug Report, Compiling Midas in OS 10.15 Catalina  
For your reference, here on my MacOSX 10.14.6 with XCode 11.3.1 the pthread.h file is present in locations listed below.

Did you execute "xcode-select --install" ?


~$ locate pthread.h
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/AppleTVOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/AppleTVOS.sdk/usr/include/pthread/pthread.h
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/AppleTVOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/AppleTVOS.sdk/usr/include/pthread.h
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/AppleTVSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/AppleTVSimulator.sdk/usr/include/pthread/pthread.h
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/AppleTVSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/AppleTVSimulator.sdk/usr/include/pthread.h
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/pthread/pthread.h
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/pthread.h
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/WatchOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/WatchOS.sdk/usr/include/pthread/pthread.h
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/WatchOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/WatchOS.sdk/usr/include/pthread.h
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/WatchSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/WatchSimulator.sdk/usr/include/pthread/pthread.h
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/WatchSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/WatchSimulator.sdk/usr/include/pthread.h
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneOS.sdk/usr/include/pthread/pthread.h
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneOS.sdk/usr/include/pthread.h
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneSimulator.sdk/usr/include/pthread/pthread.h
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneSimulator.sdk/usr/include/pthread.h
/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/pthread/pthread.h
/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/pthread.h
    Reply  12 Feb 2020, Berta Beltran, Bug Report, Compiling Midas in OS 10.15 Catalina  
> For your reference, here on my MacOSX 10.14.6 with XCode 11.3.1 the pthread.h file is present in locations listed below.
> 
> Did you execute "xcode-select --install" ?
> 
> 
> ~$ locate pthread.h
> /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/AppleTVOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/AppleTVOS.sdk/usr/include/pthread/pthread.h
> /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/AppleTVOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/AppleTVOS.sdk/usr/include/pthread.h
> /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/AppleTVSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/AppleTVSimulator.sdk/usr/include/pthread/pthread.h
> /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/AppleTVSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/AppleTVSimulator.sdk/usr/include/pthread.h
> /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/pthread/pthread.h
> /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/pthread.h
> /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/WatchOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/WatchOS.sdk/usr/include/pthread/pthread.h
> /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/WatchOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/WatchOS.sdk/usr/include/pthread.h
> /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/WatchSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/WatchSimulator.sdk/usr/include/pthread/pthread.h
> /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/WatchSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/WatchSimulator.sdk/usr/include/pthread.h
> /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneOS.sdk/usr/include/pthread/pthread.h
> /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneOS.sdk/usr/include/pthread.h
> /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneSimulator.sdk/usr/include/pthread/pthread.h
> /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneSimulator.sdk/usr/include/pthread.h
> /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/pthread/pthread.h
> /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/pthread.h

Hi Stefan,

Thanks for looking into this. Yes, I have done  "xcode-select --install"

This is my output when I try to locate pthread.h

Darrens-Mac-mini:~ betacage$ locate pthread.h
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/AppleTVOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/AppleTVOS.sdk/usr/include/pthread/pthread.h
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/AppleTVOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/AppleTVOS.sdk/usr/include/pthread.h
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/AppleTVSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/AppleTVSimulator.sdk/usr/include/pthread/pthread.h
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/AppleTVSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/AppleTVSimulator.sdk/usr/include/pthread.h
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/pthread/pthread.h
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/pthread.h
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/WatchOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/WatchOS.sdk/usr/include/pthread/pthread.h
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/WatchOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/WatchOS.sdk/usr/include/pthread.h
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/WatchSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/WatchSimulator.sdk/usr/include/pthread/pthread.h
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/WatchSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/WatchSimulator.sdk/usr/include/pthread.h
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneOS.sdk/usr/include/pthread/pthread.h
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneOS.sdk/usr/include/pthread.h
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneSimulator.sdk/usr/include/pthread/pthread.h
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneSimulator.sdk/usr/include/pthread.h
/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX10.14.sdk/usr/include/pthread/pthread.h
/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX10.14.sdk/usr/include/pthread.h
/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX10.15.sdk/usr/include/pthread/pthread.h
/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX10.15.sdk/usr/include/pthread.h

and this is what I see in my SDKs folder 

Darrens-Mac-mini:SDKs betacage$ pwd
/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs
Darrens-Mac-mini:SDKs betacage$ ls
MacOSX.sdk	MacOSX10.14.sdk	MacOSX10.15.sdk

So it looks like in this computer one needs to read the version of the SDK as pthread.h is not in MacOSX.sdk but in MacOSX10.15.sdk

Thanks 

Berta 
    Reply  12 Feb 2020, Stefan Ritt, Bug Report, Compiling Midas in OS 10.15 Catalina  
Another thought: Can you delete the build directory and run cmake again? Like

$ cd /midas/build
$ rm -rf *
$ cmake ..

If you have the old build cache and upgraded the OS in meantime, the cache needs to be rebuild.

Stefan
    Reply  12 Feb 2020, Stefan Ritt, Bug Report, Compiling Midas in OS 10.15 Catalina  
Another thought: Can you delete the midas build directory and run cmake again? Like

$ cd midas/build
$ rm -rf *
$ cmake ..
$ make VERBOSE=1

If you have the old build cache and upgraded your OS in meantime, the cache needs to be rebuild. The VERBOSE 
flag tells you the compiler options, and you see where the compiler looks for the SDK directory.

Cheers,
Stefan
    Reply  12 Feb 2020, Berta Beltran, Bug Report, Compiling Midas in OS 10.15 Catalina  
> Another thought: Can you delete the midas build directory and run cmake again? Like
> 
> $ cd midas/build
> $ rm -rf *
> $ cmake ..
> $ make VERBOSE=1
> 
> If you have the old build cache and upgraded your OS in meantime, the cache needs to be rebuild. The VERBOSE 
> flag tells you the compiler options, and you see where the compiler looks for the SDK directory.
> 
> Cheers,
> Stefan

Hi Stefan, 

Thanks again for your reply. Yes! the suggestion of rebuilding the cache was the right one, this is the output of cmake ..

Darrens-Mac-mini:~ betacage$ cd packages/midas/build/
Darrens-Mac-mini:build betacage$ rm -rf *
Darrens-Mac-mini:build betacage$ cmake ..
-- MIDAS: cmake version: 3.16.3
-- The C compiler identification is AppleClang 11.0.0.11000033
-- The CXX compiler identification is AppleClang 11.0.0.11000033
-- Check for working C compiler: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc
-- Check for working C compiler: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc -- works
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Detecting C compile features
-- Detecting C compile features - done
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/c++
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/c++ -- works
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
-- Detecting CXX compile features
-- Detecting CXX compile features - done
-- MIDAS: CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX: /Users/betacage/packages/midas
-- MIDAS: Found ROOT version 6.18/04
-- Found ZLIB: /usr/lib/libz.dylib (found version "1.2.11") 
-- MIDAS: Found ZLIB version 1.2.11
-- Found OpenSSL: /usr/lib/libcrypto.dylib (found version "1.1.1d")  
-- MIDAS: Found OpenSSL version 1.1.1d
-- MIDAS: MySQL not found
-- MIDAS: ODBC not found
-- MIDAS: SQLITE not found
-- MIDAS: nvidia-smi not found
-- Setting default build type to "RelWithDebInfo"
-- Found Git: /usr/bin/git (found version "2.21.1 (Apple Git-122.3)") 
-- MIDAS example/experiment: MIDAS in-tree-build
-- MIDAS: Found ZLIB version 1.2.11
-- MIDAS example/experiment: Found ROOT version 6.18/04
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: /Users/betacage/packages/midas/build


Unfortunately running make VERBOSE=1 the compilation crashes, with the following error 

[ 39%] Linking CXX executable mhttpd
cd /Users/betacage/packages/midas/build/progs && /Applications/CMake.app/Contents/bin/cmake -E cmake_link_script CMakeFiles/mhttpd.dir/link.txt 
--verbose=1
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/c++  -O2 -g -DNDEBUG -isysroot 
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.15.sdk -Wl,-search_paths_first -Wl,-
headerpad_max_install_names  CMakeFiles/mhttpd.dir/mhttpd.cxx.o CMakeFiles/mhttpd.dir/mongoose6.cxx.o CMakeFiles/mhttpd.dir/mgd.cxx.o 
CMakeFiles/mhttpd.dir/__/mscb/src/mscb.cxx.o  -o mhttpd  ../libmidas.a /usr/lib/libssl.dylib /usr/lib/libcrypto.dylib -lz 
ld: cannot link directly with dylib/framework, your binary is not an allowed client of /usr/lib/libcrypto.dylib for architecture x86_64
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
make[2]: *** [progs/mhttpd] Error 1
make[1]: *** [progs/CMakeFiles/mhttpd.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2


Libcrypto seems to be part of the OpenSSL, so I am back to the original problem again. I did install OpenSSL via MacPorts. 

I have found this tread regarding this problem. But have to go and pick up my kids from school, so I don't have time to investigate today.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58446253/xcode-11-ld-error-your-binary-is-not-an-allowed-client-of-usr-lib-libcrypto-dy

Thanks again for staying with me and for responding so promptly. 

Berta 
    Reply  13 Feb 2020, Stefan Ritt, Bug Report, Compiling Midas in OS 10.15 Catalina  
Now you are stuck with openssl, which is optional for mhttpd. If you only use mhttpd locally, you maybe don't need SSL support. In that case you can jus do

[midas/build] $ cmake -D NO_SSL=1 ..

To disable that. If you do need SSL, maybe you can try to install openssl11 via mac ports.

Stefan
    Reply  13 Feb 2020, Berta Beltran, Bug Report, Compiling Midas in OS 10.15 Catalina  
> Now you are stuck with openssl, which is optional for mhttpd. If you only use mhttpd locally, you maybe don't need SSL support. In that case you can jus do
> 
> [midas/build] $ cmake -D NO_SSL=1 ..
> 
> To disable that. If you do need SSL, maybe you can try to install openssl11 via mac ports.
> 
> Stefan

Thanks Stefan. 
If I run the compilation with the flag NO_SSL it works just fine. Still I think that Mhttpd is going to be important for us in the future as we may want to control the experiment remotely, so I will keep trying. But at least I 
can get started.

Thanks 

Berta 
Entry  18 Feb 2020, Lukas Gerritzen, Bug Report, RPC Error: ACK or other control chars from "db_get_values" Screenshot_from_2020-02-18_10-46-22.png
Hi,
for some reason we occasionally get JSON errors in the browser when accessing MIDAS. It is then not possible to open a new window or tab, see attachment. The unexpected token is \0x6, so the acknowledge symbol.
If this happens, then all "alive sessions" keep being usable despite error messages, but show similar error messages:
>RPC Error
>json parser exception: SyntaxError: JSON.parse: bad control character in string literal at line 80 column 30 of the JSON data, method: "db_get_valus", params: [object Object], id: 1582020074098.

Do you have any idea why db_get_values yields ACK or other control characters?

Thanks
    Reply  18 Feb 2020, Stefan Ritt, Bug Report, RPC Error: ACK or other control chars from "db_get_values" 
You are the first one reporting this error, so it must be due to your values in the ODB. Can you track it down to specific ODB contents? If so, can you post it so that I can reproduce your error?

Stefan
    Reply  20 Feb 2020, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, RPC Error: ACK or other control chars from "db_get_values" 
> The unexpected token is \0x6
> RPC Error json parser exception: SyntaxError: JSON.parse: bad control character in string literal at line 80 column 30 of the JSON data, method: "db_get_valus", params: [object Object], id: 1582020074098.

Yes, there is a problem.

Traditionally, midas strings in ODB have no restriction on the content (I think even the '\0x0' char is permitted).

But web browser javascript strings are supposed to be valid unicode (UTF-16, if I read this right: https://tc39.es/ecma262/#sec-ecmascript-language-types-string-type).

The collision between the two happens when ODB values are json-encoded by midas, then json-decoded by the web browser.

The midas json encoder (mjson.h, mjson.cxx) encodes ODB strings according to JSON rules, but does not ensure that the result is valid UTF-8. (valid UTF-8 is not required, if I read the specs correctly http://www.ecma-
international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST/ECMA-404.pdf and https://www.json.org/json-en.html)

The web browser json decoder requires valid UTF-8 and throws exceptions if it does not like something. Different browsers it slightly differently, so we have an error handler for this in the mjsonrpc results processor.

What does this mean in practice?

Now that MIDAS is very web oriented, MIDAS strings must be web browser friendly, too:

a) all ODB key names (subdirectory names, link names, etc) must be UTF-8 unicode, and this has been enforced by ODB for some time now.
b) all ODB string values must be valid UTF-8 unicode. This is not enforced right now.

Historically, it was okey to use ODB TID_STRING to store arbitrary binary data, but now, I think, we must deprecate this,
at least for any ODB entries that could be returned to a web browser (which means all of them, after we implement a fully
html+javascript odb editor). For storing binary data, arrays of TID_CHAR, TID_DWORD & co are probably a better match.

The MIDAS and ROOTANA json decoders (the same mjson.h, mjson.cxx) do not care about UTF-8, so ODB dumps
in JSON format are not affected by any of this. (But I am not sure about the JSON decoder in ROOT).

Bottom line:

I think db_validate() should check for invalid UTF-8 in ODB key names and in TID_STRING values
and at least warn the user. (I am not sure if invalid UTF-8 can be fixed automatically). db_create()
should reject key names that are not valid UTF-8 (it already does this, I think). db_set_value(TID_STRING) should
probably reject invalid UTF-8 strings, this needs to be discussed some more.

https://bitbucket.org/tmidas/midas/issues/215/everything-in-odb-must-be-valid-utf-8

K.O.
    Reply  28 Feb 2020, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, Compiling Midas in OS 10.15 Catalina  
> > [midas/build] $ cmake -D NO_SSL=1 ..
> If I run the compilation with the flag NO_SSL it works just fine. ...

FYI, the mongoose616 branch now has support for using the mbedtls https library,
this library seems to build easily from sources and removes our dependency
on where/how/which openssl library is installed. I hope to have this included
in the next release of midas.

K.O.
    Reply  03 Mar 2020, Berta Beltran, Bug Report, Compiling Midas in OS 10.15 Catalina  
Thanks Konstantin,

I will keep an eye for the next release so that I can update my Midas to include ssl libraries.

Thanks 



> > > [midas/build] $ cmake -D NO_SSL=1 ..
> > If I run the compilation with the flag NO_SSL it works just fine. ...
> 
> FYI, the mongoose616 branch now has support for using the mbedtls https library,
> this library seems to build easily from sources and removes our dependency
> on where/how/which openssl library is installed. I hope to have this included
> in the next release of midas.
> 
> K.O.
Entry  07 May 2020, Estelle, Bug Report, Conflic between Rootana and midas about the redefinition of TID_xxx data types  
Dear Midas and Rootana people,

We have tried to update our midas DAQ with the new TID definitions describe in https://midas.triumf.ca/elog/Midas/1871 

And we have noticed an incompatibility of this new definitions with Rootana when reading an XmlOdb in our offline analyzer. 

The problem comes from  the function FindArrayPath in XmlOdb.cxx and the comparison of bank type as strings.
Ex: comparing the strings "DWORD" and "UNINT32"

An naive solution would be to print the number associated to the type (ex: '6' for DWORD/UNINT32), but that would mean changing Rootana and Midas source code. Moreover, it does decrease the readability of the XmlOdb file. 


Thanks for your time.
Estelle
    Reply  20 May 2020, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, Conflic between Rootana and midas about the redefinition of TID_xxx data types  
> Dear Midas and Rootana people,
> 
> We have tried to update our midas DAQ with the new TID definitions describe in https://midas.triumf.ca/elog/Midas/1871 
> 
> And we have noticed an incompatibility of this new definitions with Rootana when reading an XmlOdb in our offline analyzer. 
> 
> The problem comes from  the function FindArrayPath in XmlOdb.cxx and the comparison of bank type as strings.
> Ex: comparing the strings "DWORD" and "UNINT32"
> 
> An naive solution would be to print the number associated to the type (ex: '6' for DWORD/UNINT32), but that would mean changing Rootana and Midas source code. Moreover, it does decrease the readability of the XmlOdb file. 
> 

Hi, it is unfortunate that a change was made in MIDAS that is incompatible with existing analysis software. I shall update the ROOTANA package to deal with this ASAP.

K.O.
Entry  22 May 2020, Thomas Lindner, Bug Report, More trouble with openssl on macos 
For the record, here's my report of difficulties getting mongoose to compile with macos.  This is a similar 
problem reported before, but with slightly different error messages.  So I put them here for posterity.

Setup: 
- macos: 10.13.6
- xcode: 9.2
- gcc: Thomass-MacBook-Pro-3:build lindner$ gcc --version
Configured with: --prefix=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr --with-gxx-include-
dir=/usr/include/c++/4.2.1
Apple LLVM version 9.0.0 (clang-900.0.39.2)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin17.7.0
- midas: today's version

Start with the openssl version I had already installed.  cmake says 

-- Found OpenSSL: /usr/lib/libcrypto.dylib (found version "1.0.2s") 
-- MIDAS: Found OpenSSL version 1.0.2s

make install fails with this error:

[ 35%] Linking CXX executable mhttpd
cd /Users/lindner/packages/midas/build/progs && /usr/local/Cellar/cmake/3.15.0/bin/cmake -E 
cmake_link_script CMakeFiles/mhttpd.dir/link.txt --verbose=1
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/c++  -O2 -g -
DNDEBUG -Wl,-search_paths_first -Wl,-headerpad_max_install_names  CMakeFiles/mhttpd.dir/mhttpd.cxx.o 
CMakeFiles/mhttpd.dir/mongoose616.cxx.o CMakeFiles/mhttpd.dir/mgd.cxx.o 
CMakeFiles/mhttpd.dir/__/mscb/src/mscb.cxx.o  -o mhttpd ../libmidas.a /usr/lib/libssl.dylib 
/usr/lib/libcrypto.dylib -lz -lcurl -lsqlite3
Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
  "_SSL_CTX_set_psk_client_callback", referenced from:
      _mg_ssl_if_conn_init in mongoose616.cxx.o
ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)

Use macports to upgrade to newer openssl

sudo port selfupdate
sudo port upgrade outdated

Now cmake says

-- Found OpenSSL: /usr/lib/libcrypto.dylib (found version "1.1.1g") 
-- MIDAS: Found OpenSSL version 1.1.1g

Error message is different now:

cd /Users/lindner/packages/midas/build/progs && /usr/local/Cellar/cmake/3.15.0/bin/cmake -E 
cmake_link_script CMakeFiles/mhttpd.dir/link.txt --verbose=1
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/c++  -O2 -g -
DNDEBUG -Wl,-search_paths_first -Wl,-headerpad_max_install_names  CMakeFiles/mhttpd.dir/mhttpd.cxx.o 
CMakeFiles/mhttpd.dir/mongoose616.cxx.o CMakeFiles/mhttpd.dir/mgd.cxx.o 
CMakeFiles/mhttpd.dir/__/mscb/src/mscb.cxx.o  -o mhttpd ../libmidas.a /usr/lib/libssl.dylib 
/usr/lib/libcrypto.dylib -lz -lcurl -lsqlite3
Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
  "_OPENSSL_init_ssl", referenced from:
      _mg_mgr_init_opt in mongoose616.cxx.o
      _mg_ssl_if_init in mongoose616.cxx.o
  "_SSL_CTX_set_options", referenced from:
      _mg_ssl_if_conn_init in mongoose616.cxx.o
  "_SSL_CTX_set_psk_client_callback", referenced from:
      _mg_ssl_if_conn_init in mongoose616.cxx.o
ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64

Fine.  Doing 'cmake -D NO_SSL=1 ..' to build still works fine; I will stick with that since I don't need SSL on my 
laptop.

Perhaps we should disable SSL by default on Macos?  People may only have ~50% chance of getting it to 
work.
  
    Reply  22 May 2020, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, More trouble with openssl on macos 
> For the record, here's my report of difficulties getting mongoose to compile with macos. 
> -- MIDAS: Found OpenSSL version 1.0.2s
> -- MIDAS: Found OpenSSL version 1.1.1g
> ... [ all of them did not work ]

For the record, I get this on mac os 10.15.4 and it works.
-- MIDAS: Found OpenSSL version 1.1.1g

I think I am quite fed up with this openssl business, too.

What I will do in MIDAS is fix the mbedtls detection, add mbedtls instructions
in the documentation and remove openssl from mhttpd build.

Result will be:
- default build will have mhttpd without https support, and this works in 100% of our use cases at TRIUMF.
- if user do not want to use apache https proxy, they have to "git clone" mbedtls, build it, rebuild mhttpd, then
they get https support, but for https certificate management - getting them, renewing them, etc, they are
on their own.

Since mhttpd has no integration with certbot, automatic management of https certificates does not work,
so good luck again.

In theory, I can try to add certbot integration, but even the most basic tools are missing, for example, openssl
does not report certificate expiration dates (I guess I must write my own code to examine the certificate
and hope my idea of expiration matches their idea). Since I do not see certificate expiration dates, every day I could
blindly run "certbot renew" and restart openssl with the updated certificate (but I think openssl does
not have a "restart" function, so again, forget about it). Adding insult to injury, by default, certbot stores certificates
in a secret location in /etc where mhttpd cannot access them.

Bottom line is that powers-that-be messed up https certificate management and until that is sorted out and is easy
to integrate with custom web servers, I can only recommend that mhttpd must run behind the "OS support https proxy".

K.O.
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