 16 Jun 2008, Stefan Ritt, Bug Fix, "Missing event" problem fixed in front-end framework
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Since the very beginning midas had the problem that the last event of a run was
sometimes missing in the data. While for most experiments this is not an issue,
it starts to hurt on experiments using event building (front-end 1 and front-end
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05 Jun 2008, Jimmy Ngai, Forum, CAEN VME-USE Bridge with MIDAS
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Hi All,
Is there any example code for using MIDAS with the CAEN VME-USB Bridge V1718?
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 07 Jun 2008, Jimmy Ngai, Forum, CAEN VME-USE Bridge with MIDAS
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Hi All,
I am testing the libraries provided by CAEN with the sample softwares in the
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20 May 2008, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, pending problems and fixes from triumf
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Here is the list of known problems I am aware of and of fixes not yet committed
to midas svn:
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28 May 2008, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, pending problems and fixes from triumf
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> Here is the list of known problems I am aware of and of fixes not yet committed
> to midas svn:
>
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29 May 2008, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, pending problems and fixes from triumf
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> > Here is the list of known problems I am aware of and of fixes not yet committed to midas svn:
> > 1) added variable /equiment/foo/common/PerVariableHistory
>
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07 Jan 2008, Stefan Ritt, Info, Roll-back for history sytem added
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The midas history system always had the problem that the database can get
corrupted if the disk gets full where the history records (*.hst & *.idx) are
stored. This can happen if a history event can only be written partially on the
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13 Feb 2008, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, Roll-back for history sytem added
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> The midas history system always had the problem that the database can get
> corrupted if the disk gets full where the history records (*.hst & *.idx) are
> stored.
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13 Feb 2008, Stefan Ritt, Info, Roll-back for history sytem added
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> But to make things more interesting we had another history outage this week - we
> happen to write history files to an NFS server (not recommened! do not do this!) and
> when the NFS server had a glitch, history files got corrupted - because during the
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28 May 2008, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, Roll-back for history sytem added
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> > But to make things more interesting we had another history outage this week...
> > Anyhow, I now have a patch to allow hs_read() to "skip the bad spots" in history files.
>
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20 May 2008, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, pending problems and fixes from triumf
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Here is the list of known problems I am aware of and of fixes not yet committed
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30 Apr 2008, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, triumf elog updated to elog-2.7.3-1.i386.rpm
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FYI - in conjunction with replacement of ladd00.triumf.ca, this MIDAS ELOG has been updated to the latest
version 2.7.3-2058. Please report any problems or anomalies. K.O. |
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02 Apr 2008, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, add "const" attributes to db_xxx() functions
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Now that we use more and more C++, lack of "const" attribute on most midas functions is causing some
problems. I am now ready to commit changes to midas.h and odb.c that add the const attributes to ODB
access functions db_xxx(), i.e.
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02 Apr 2008, Stefan Ritt, Info, add "const" attributes to db_xxx() functions
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> Now that we use more and more C++, lack of "const" attribute on most midas functions is causing some
> problems. I am now ready to commit changes to midas.h and odb.c that add the const attributes to ODB
> access functions db_xxx(), i.e.
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03 Apr 2008, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, add "const" attributes to db_xxx() functions
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> > I am now ready to commit changes to midas.h and odb.c that add the const attributes to ODB
> > access functions db_xxx(), i.e.
> > INT db_rename_key(HNDLE hDB, HNDLE hKey, char *name)
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02 Apr 2008, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, add "const" attributes to db_xxx() functions
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Now that we use more and more C++, lack of "const" attribute on most midas functions is causing some
problems. I am now ready to commit changes to midas.h and odb.c that add the const attributes to ODB
access functions db_xxx(), i.e.
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23 Mar 2008, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, History SQL database poll: MySQL, PgSQL, ODBC?
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I would like to hear from potential users on which SQL database would be
preferable for storage of MIDAS history data.
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09 Mar 2008, Exaos Lee, Suggestion, New Makefile for building MIDAS 
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I rewrote the Makefile for MIDAS in order to make it tidy. I tested it on my box
and it works here.
1. The full file is seperated to several parts
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09 Mar 2008, Stefan Ritt, Suggestion, New Makefile for building MIDAS
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> I rewrote the Makefile for MIDAS in order to make it tidy. I tested it on my box
> and it works here.
> 1. The full file is seperated to several parts
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10 Mar 2008, Stefan Ritt, Suggestion, New Makefile for building MIDAS
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> I rewrote the Makefile for MIDAS in order to make it tidy. I tested it on my box
> and it works here.
> 1. The full file is seperated to several parts
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10 Mar 2008, Exaos Lee, Suggestion, New Makefile for building MIDAS
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> The Makefile is missing -lzip:
Sorry, spelling error.
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10 Mar 2008, Konstantin Olchanski, Suggestion, New Makefile for building MIDAS
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> I rewrote the Makefile for MIDAS in order to make it tidy.
Not that the current Makefile is too pretty (I have seen worse), but it works and it is fairly compact for a project of
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10 Mar 2008, Exaos Lee, Suggestion, New Makefile for building MIDAS
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> Most experience with autoconf/automake is all negative. The promise was "never debug your Makefile ever
> again!", delivered was "debug the configure script instead!". In practice, with autoconf/automake, you try to run
> configure, kludge it until it stops crashing, then tweak the incomprehensible Makefiles it produces until the code
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12 Mar 2008, Konstantin Olchanski, Suggestion, New Makefile for building MIDAS
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> > Most experience with autoconf/automake is all negative. The promise was "never debug your Makefile ever
> > again!", delivered was "debug the configure script instead!".
>
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10 Mar 2008, Exaos Lee, Suggestion, "Makefile-by-EL" updated
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> Not that the current Makefile is too pretty (I have seen worse), but it
works and it is fairly compact for a project of
> this complexity, it handles a large number of operating systems and build
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10 Mar 2008, Exaos Lee, Suggestion, "Makefile-by-EL" updated
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Sorry, this line:
[CODE]EXECS += $(EXAMPLES:%/$(BIN_DIR)/%)[/CODE]
should be replaced by
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11 Mar 2008, Stefan Ritt, Suggestion, "Makefile-by-EL" updated
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The linking of mhttpd misses a "-lm":
cc -g -O3 -Wall -Wuninitialized -DINCLUDE_FTPLIB -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -DOS_LINUX
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11 Mar 2008, Exaos Lee, Suggestion, "Makefile-by-EL" updated
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> The linking of mhttpd misses a "-lm":
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> cc -g -O3 -Wall -Wuninitialized -DINCLUDE_FTPLIB -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -DOS_LINUX
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07 Mar 2008, Randolf Pohl, Bug Report, array overflows and other bugs
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Hi,
I have just compiled MIDAS svn 4132 on a fresh SuSE 10.3 x86_64 system and gcc
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07 Mar 2008, Stefan Ritt, Bug Report, array overflows and other bugs
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> I have just compiled MIDAS svn 4132 on a fresh SuSE 10.3 x86_64 system and gcc
> found a bunch of bugs, I guess.
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10 Mar 2008, Stefan Ritt, Bug Report, array overflows and other bugs
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There were some trivial and some non-trivial issues. Glad the compiled picked up on
this!
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07 Jun 2007, Konstantin Olchanski, Suggestion, RFC- ACLs for midas rpc, mserver, mhttpd access
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Running MIDAS at CERN is proving more challenging than I expected. The network environement is not
as benign as I am used to (i.e. at TRIUMF) and our machines are being constantly probed by something/
somebody.
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07 Jun 2007, John M O'Donnell, Suggestion, RFC- ACLs for midas rpc, mserver, mhttpd access
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I am in favor of tcp_wrappers.
tcp_wrappers is well understood.
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08 Jun 2007, Stefan Ritt, Suggestion, RFC- ACLs for midas rpc, mserver, mhttpd access
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First I have a general question: mserver is started through xinetd, and xinetd has
the options "only_from" and "no_access". This is equivalent to the tcp_wrapper
functionality. Why not using this? It's possible without changing anything in midas.
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07 Mar 2008, Konstantin Olchanski, Suggestion, RFC- ACLs for midas rpc, mserver, mhttpd access
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The mhttpd host-based access control list as used by ALPHA at CERN is now committed to
SVN (revision 4135).
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10 Mar 2008, Stefan Ritt, Suggestion, RFC- ACLs for midas rpc, mserver, mhttpd access
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> When accepting connection from a remote host, the remote IP address is converted to a
> hostname using gethostbyaddr(). If ODB directory "/experiment/security/mhttpd hosts",
> exists, access is permitted if there is an entry for the this hostname. "localhost" is
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10 Mar 2008, Konstantin Olchanski, Suggestion, RFC- ACLs for midas rpc, mserver, mhttpd access
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> While your "positive list" will certainly work, it is much more inflexible than a more
> general hosts.allow/hosts.deny with wildcards. Assume some experiment decides it wants to
> be controlled from all inside CERN. With hosts.allow/deny you could do
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10 Mar 2008, Stefan Ritt, Suggestion, RFC- ACLs for midas rpc, mserver, mhttpd access
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> I was going to bring this up later, but since mhttpd does not pass security audits, I believe
> the only way it should be run in the modern computing environement is behind
> a password-protected SSL proxy.
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02 Mar 2008, Exaos Lee, Suggestion, Bash Script for handling an experiment code
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I rearanged the files in "examples/experiment" as the attached "mtest_exp.zip". I re-write the start/stop script as the attached "daq.sh". The script "daq.sh"
can be re-used for many experiments. The user only needs to provide an script "daq_env.sh" as the following containing the settings for the experiment
environment.
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05 Feb 2008, Denis Bilenko, Info, pymidas 0.6.0 released - python bindings for Midas
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Hi!
I have released pymidas - Python binding to Midas.
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18 Feb 2008, Exaos Lee, Bug Report, Great! But I failed to run it. :(
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I encountered the error message as the following:
[CODE]
Traceback (most recent call last):
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26 Feb 2008, Denis Bilenko, Bug Report, NEED_SHLIB=1 is broken
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I have the exact same problem with midas rev. 4129.
`make NEED_SHLIB=1` doesn't work.
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27 Feb 2008, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, NEED_SHLIB=1 is broken
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--- Makefile (revision 4129)
+++ Makefile (working copy)
- $(LIB_DIR)/mxml.o $(LIB_DIR)/cnaf_callback.o \
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29 Feb 2008, Denis Bilenko, Bug Report, NEED_SHLIB=1 is broken
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Having libmidas.so is absolutely necessary for pymidas to work. If there was no such
option in Makefile pymidas users would have to build it themselves.
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27 Feb 2008, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, mhttpd: cannot attach history to elog
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From "history" pages, the "create elog" button stopped working - it takes us to the elog entry form, but
then, the "submit" button does not create any elog entries, instead dumps us into an invalid history
display. This is using the internal elog.
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28 Feb 2008, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, mhttpd: cannot attach history to elog
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> From "history" pages, the "create elog" button stopped working - it takes us to the elog entry form, but
> then, the "submit" button does not create any elog entries, instead dumps us into an invalid history
> display. This is using the internal elog.
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18 Aug 2005, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, CAMAC register_cnaf_callback()
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Some time ago, the "remote CAMAC" functionality in mfe.c was made conditional on
HAVE_CAMAC. This flag is not set by default so remote camac calls silently do
not work, unless midas is compiled in a special way. I am too lazy to compile
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01 Sep 2005, Stefan Ritt, Info, CAMAC register_cnaf_callback()
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> Some time ago, the "remote CAMAC" functionality in mfe.c was made conditional on
> HAVE_CAMAC. This flag is not set by default so remote camac calls silently do
> not work, unless midas is compiled in a special way. I am too lazy to compile
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27 Feb 2008, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, CAMAC register_cnaf_callback() - removed from libmidas
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> > Affected files:
> > Makefile (add cnaf_callback.o)
> That's a good idea.
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18 Feb 2008, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, potential memory corruption in odb,c:extract_key()
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It looks like ODB function extract_key() will overwrite the array pointed to by "key_name" if given an odb
path with very long names (as seems to happen when redirection explodes in the Safari web browser, via
db_get_value(TRUE) via mhttpd "start program" button). All callers of this function seem to provide 256
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21 Feb 2008, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, potential memory corruption in odb,c:extract_key()
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> It looks like ODB function extract_key() will overwrite the array pointed to by "key_name" if given an odb
> path with very long names (as seems to happen when redirection explodes in the Safari web browser, via
> db_get_value(TRUE) via mhttpd "start program" button). All callers of this function seem to provide 256
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13 Feb 2008, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, mhttpd history display updates
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I now merged almost all the mhttpd changes from CERN AD-5/ALPHA. Only the code
for mhttpd HTTP:// access control list remains unmerged.
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14 Feb 2008, Stefan Ritt, Info, mhttpd history display updates
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You misspelled one ODB entry:
Line 9014:
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21 Feb 2008, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, mhttpd history display updates
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> You misspelled one ODB entry:
> Line 9014:
> sprintf(str, "/History/Display/%s/Label", path);
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18 Feb 2008, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, mhttpd safari 3.0.4 redirect problem
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I now encountered a new problem with mhttpd - I connect using the Safari 3.0.4 browser, go to the
"Programs" page, press the button "Start feplc" (or any other "start" button) and instead of starting this
program, I get an error in the browser, funny entries in ODB in "/Programs", corrupted ODB and a spew
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21 Feb 2008, Stefan Ritt, Bug Report, mhttpd safari 3.0.4 redirect problem
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> /* start command */
> if (*getparam("Start")) {
> /* for NT: close reply socket before starting subprocess */
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16 Oct 2006, Exaos Lee, Bug Fix, "make install" error on MacOS 10.4.7, svn 3366
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While executing "make install" under MacOS 10.4.7, you may encounter errors about "dio". It is the
problem of "Makefile". I did some change to it and attach the diff file here. |
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16 Oct 2006, Stefan Ritt, Bug Fix, "make install" error on MacOS 10.4.7, svn 3366
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> While executing "make install" under MacOS 10.4.7, you may encounter errors about "dio". It is the
> problem of "Makefile". I did some change to it and attach the diff file here.
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19 Feb 2008, Maggie Lee, Bug Fix, "make install" error on MacOS 10.4.7, svn 3366
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> While executing "make install" under MacOS 10.4.7, you may encounter errors about "dio". It is the
> problem of "Makefile". I did some change to it and attach the diff file here.
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19 Feb 2008, Maggie Lee, Bug Fix, "make install" error on MacOS 10.4.7, svn 3366
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I forgot to mention that, the following (and similar) lines:
install -v -D -m 755 $$file $(SYSBIN_DIR)/`basename $$file` ; \
are changed into
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19 Feb 2008, Stefan Ritt, Bug Fix, "make install" error on MacOS 10.4.7, svn 3366
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> I forgot to mention that, the following (and similar) lines:
> install -v -D -m 755 $$file $(SYSBIN_DIR)/`basename $$file` ; \
> are changed into
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19 Feb 2008, Maggie Lee, Bug Fix, "make install" error on MacOS 10.4.7, svn 3366
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Thank you for your help =)
Since SYSBIN_DIR is defined as /usr/local/bin in the Makefile and it exists in my computer, so I deleted the -D in the Makefile and tried to "make install" |