 14 Jul 2004, Piotr Zolnierczuk, , future direction discussion?
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Hi,
I think that rather than spending too much time on where to
put files and how to define the environment - I am guilty of that myself.
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 14 Jul 2004, Piotr Zolnierczuk, , future directions discussion?
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Sorry the previous message got mangled:
Hi,
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14 Jul 2004, Stefan Ritt, , future direction discussion?
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Have changed your entry as Non-HTML (easier to reply to...)
Here are some "initial" comments, by no means complete...
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15 Jul 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, , future direction discussion?
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> > Are we ready for 2.0?
I disapprove of version number inflation. Why not go straight for midas version
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15 Jul 2004, Stefan Ritt, , Severe bug in 1.9.4
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Hello midas'ers,
Today I discovered a severe bug in the routine bm_check_buffers(), which
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14 Jul 2004, Exaos Lee, , install problem of Makefile on MacOS X (Darwin 7.4.0, gcc 3.3)
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I have compiled the sources on Darwin 7.4.0 with gcc 3.3. After the compilation of source codes, I
try to execute "gmake install". I got the following message:
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14 Jul 2004, Exaos Lee, , install problem of Makefile on MacOS X (Darwin 7.4.0, gcc 3.3)
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There are not such a file "io.h" inside my MacOS X. In fact, I didn't find any file containing function iopl().
So what is the equivalent function of iopl() under MacOS X? The utility dio should be modified in order to be compiled under Darwin-
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14 Jul 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, , install problem of Makefile on MacOS X (Darwin 7.4.0, gcc 3.3)
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> There are not such a file "io.h" inside my MacOS X. In fact, I didn't find any file containing function iopl().
> So what is the equivalent function of iopl() under MacOS X? The utility dio should be modified in order to be compiled under Darwin-
> gcc platform.
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09 Jul 2004, Stefan Ritt, , Version 1.9.4 released today
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Version 1.9.4 of midas has been released today. It is mainly a maintenance
update, for all the little things which have been fixed since the last
release, and does not contain major new functionality. |
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30 Jun 2004, Piotr Zolnierczuk, , mvme167 problems
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Hi,
I am really puzzled: I am running the very same as far as sources
are concerned (Dec 12, 2003 snapsot) midas frontend (miniexp + camacnul)
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30 Jun 2004, Piotr Zolnierczuk, , mvme167 problems
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A followup: I traced back the problem to version 1.9.2.
Version 1.9.1 does not have this problem but 1.9.2 does.
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21 Jun 2004, Piotr Zolnierczuk, , FAQ: anonymous cvs access?
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Is the midas CVS server set-up so that I can pull the newest
version off the CVS server?
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21 Jun 2004, Pierre-André Amaudruz, , FAQ: anonymous cvs access?
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> Is the midas CVS server set-up so that I can pull the newest
> version off the CVS server?
>
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22 Jun 2004, Exaos Lee, , FAQ: anonymous cvs access?
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> In the Midas doc under "Quick Start"
> http://midas.triumf.ca/doc/html/quickstart.html
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29 Jun 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, , FAQ: anonymous cvs access?
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> Is the midas CVS server set-up so that I can pull the newest
> version off the CVS server?
>
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22 Jun 2004, Exaos Lee, , How to compile under Darwin-gcc? (MacOS X)
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I add the following to makefile and try to treat Darwin as FreeBSD/Linux.
But I failed.
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22 Jun 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, , How to compile under Darwin-gcc? (MacOS X)
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The current (cvs) version of MIDAS should build on Mac OS X right out of the
box- I fixed all the problems you report back in February(?)- see the macosx
thread in this forum. A few weeks ago I verified that it still compiles on Mac
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23 Jun 2004, Exaos Lee, , How to compile under Darwin-gcc? (MacOS X)
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> The current (cvs) version of MIDAS should build on Mac OS X right out of the
> box- I fixed all the problems you report back in February(?)- see the macosx
> thread in this forum. A few weeks ago I verified that it still compiles on Mac
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23 Jun 2004, Stefan Ritt, , How to compile under Darwin-gcc? (MacOS X)
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> Thanks a lot. But I cannot checkout module:
> ------------
> 01:52:16: pc2075.psi.ch: Operation timed out
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23 Jun 2004, Exaos Lee, , How to compile under Darwin-gcc? (MacOS X)
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>
> Should work fine, just tried from outside PSI. Please check again.
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28 Jun 2004, Exaos Lee, , Linking Error: g++ -rpath?
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I cannot checkout from the cvs server. So I download each latest file from the WWW
interface of CVS. While compiling these files, I encountered the following problems:
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28 Jun 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, , Linking Error: g++ -rpath?
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> ld: unknown flag: -rpath
> gmake: *** [darwin/bin/mlogger] Error 1
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07 May 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, , min(a,b) in mana.c and mlogger.c
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When I compile current cvs-head midas, I get errors about undefined function
min(). I do not think min() is in the list of standard C functions, so
something else should be used instead, like a MIN(a,b) macro. To make life
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07 May 2004, Stefan Ritt, , min(a,b) in mana.c and mlogger.c
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> When I compile current cvs-head midas, I get errors about undefined function
> min(). I do not think min() is in the list of standard C functions, so
> something else should be used instead, like a MIN(a,b) macro. To make life
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21 Jun 2004, Piotr Zolnierczuk, , min(a,b) in mana.c and mlogger.c
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> > When I compile current cvs-head midas, I get errors about undefined function
> > min(). I do not think min() is in the list of standard C functions, so
> > something else should be used instead, like a MIN(a,b) macro. To make life
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06 Jun 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, , Makefile: set -rpath
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I commited Makefile bits to set the RPATH on dynamically linked executables
to find libmidas.so and ROOT shared libraries without setting
LD_LIBRARY_PATH , etc. K.O. |
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28 Apr 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, , mhttpd "start run" input field length?
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I am setting up a new experiment and I added a "comment" field to "/
Experiment/Edit on start". When I start the run, I see this field, but I
cannot enter anything: the HTML "maxlength" is zero (or 1?). I traced this
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30 Apr 2004, Stefan Ritt, , mhttpd
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> I am setting up a new experiment and I added a "comment" field to "/
> Experiment/Edit on start". When I start the run, I see this field, but I
> cannot enter anything: the HTML "maxlength" is zero (or 1?). I traced this
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30 Mar 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, , elog fixes 
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I am about to commit the mhttpd Elog fixes we have been using in TWIST since
about October. The infamous Elog "last N days" problem is fixed, sundry
memory overruns are caught and assert()ed.
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30 Mar 2004, Stefan Ritt, , elog fixes
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Thanks for fixing these long lasting bugs. The code is much cleaner now, please
commit it. |
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10 Mar 2004, Jan Wouters, , Creation of secondary Midas output file.
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Dear Midas Team,
I have run into a problem with Midas and was wondering if you could explain what I
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10 Mar 2004, Stefan Ritt, , Creation of secondary Midas output file.
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Dear Jan,
I had a look at your code. You create a gPhysicsEventHeader array, fill it, and expect the
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11 Mar 2004, Renee Poutissou, , Creation of secondary Midas output file.
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Jan ,
Do you need to log this stage 1 output? If not, you would use the
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19 Jan 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, , darwin aka macosx changes
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I commited the final bits to make Midas build on Darwin aka macosx.
Here is the summary:
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14 Jan 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, , First try- midas on darwin/macosx
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While watching "The Wizard of Oz", the greatest movie ever made, I took a shot at building
midas on my macosx computer. After stumbling on a few small and on a few hard problems, I
built almost everything. However, odb does not work- some further debugging is in order.
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14 Jan 2004, Stefan Ritt, , First try- midas on darwin/macosx
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Great, I got already questions about MacOSX support...
Once it's working, you should commit the changes. But take into account that using "//" for
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16 Jan 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, , First try- midas on darwin/macosx
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> Great, I got already questions about MacOSX support...
> Once it's working, you should commit the changes.
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17 Jan 2004, Stefan Ritt, , First try- midas on darwin/macosx
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> With the ALIGN8() change ODB works, mhttpd works. ALIGN8 change now commited to cvs, verified that "make all" builds
> on Linux.
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18 Jan 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, , First try- midas on darwin/macosx
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> I would like to keep all OS specific #includes in midasinc.h
No go. Here is the problem:
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19 Jan 2004, Stefan Ritt, , First try- midas on darwin/macosx
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> I want this:
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> mana.c does *not* include sys/mount.h
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19 Jan 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, , First try- midas on darwin/macosx
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> > Simplest solution is to take sys/mount.h out of midasinc.h and include it in system.c
> Agree.
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14 Jan 2004, Razvan Stefan Gornea, , Access to hardware in the MIDAS framework
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I am just starting to explore MIDAS, i.e. reading the manual and trying
some examples. For the moment I would like to make a simple frontend that
access a portable multimeter through RS-232 port. I think this could help
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14 Jan 2004, Stefan Ritt, , Access to hardware in the MIDAS framework
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There is some information at
http://midas.triumf.ca/doc/html/Internal.html#Slow_Control_system
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16 Jan 2004, Razvan Stefan Gornea, , Access to hardware in the MIDAS framework
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The multimeter device is indeed to simple to use MIDAS but I am just trying
it as a learning experience. The DAQ system to develop involves VME crates
and general purpose I/O boards. The slow control part, especially accessing
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17 Jan 2004, Stefan Ritt, , Access to hardware in the MIDAS framework
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> The result is strange because the get function is called all the time very
> fast (much faster then the 9 seconds as set in the equipment) and even
> before starting the run (I just put the flag RO_RUNNING).
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15 Dec 2003, Stefan Ritt, , Poll about default indent style
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Dear all,
there are continuing requests about the C indent style we use in midas. As
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18 Dec 2003, Paul Knowles, , Poll about default indent style
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Hi Stefan,
> once and forever, I am considering using the "indent" program which comes
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18 Dec 2003, Stefan Ritt, , Poll about default indent style
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Hi Paul,
I agree with you that a nesting level of more than 4-5 is a bad thing, but I
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01 Jan 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, , Poll about default indent style
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> I don't feel a strong need of giving up a "-i2"...
I am comfortable with the current MIDAS styling convention and I would rather not
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06 Jan 2004, Stefan Ritt, , Poll about default indent style
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Ok, taking all comments so far into account, I conclude adopting the ROOT
coding style would be best for us. So I put
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11 Aug 2003, Konstantin Olchanski, , Alarm on no ping?
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I want midas alarms to go off when I cannot ping arbitrary remote hosts. Is
there is easy/preferred way to do this? K.O. |
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18 Dec 2003, Stefan Ritt, , Alarm on no ping?
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> I want midas alarms to go off when I cannot ping arbitrary remote hosts. Is
> there is easy/preferred way to do this? K.O.
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15 Dec 2003, Pierre-André Amaudruz, , ROOT GUI at Triumf
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The current Triumf DAQ standard (Midas) since the second quarter of this
year (2003) has the capability to deal with ROOT histograms. The internal
midas logger can save data files in ROOT format and the analyzer can book
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12 Dec 2003, Stefan Ritt, , Several small fixes and changes
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I committed several small fixes and changes:
- install.txt which mentions explicitly ROOT
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09 Dec 2003, Paul Knowles, , db_close_record non-local/non-return
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Hi All,
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12 Dec 2003, Stefan Ritt, , db_close_record non-local/non-return
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Hi Paul,
sorry my late reply, I had to find some time for debugging your problem.
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