LHCb Core Software Meeting

Date and Location

Attendees

Apologies

Subjects

News

• LCG 50 has been released
• GENSER generator meeting in the afternoon

Marco Ca.: It was a bit disappointing hearing at the last AA meeting that LAL is still looking for somebody to maintain CMT.

Pere: now group leader of SFT

Software Releases

Gaudi (Hubert)

• Patches
  • Fixes in genconf (Atlas)
  • propagation of StatusCode in ToolSvc from finalization of tools (Atlas)
  • MsgSvc operator<< moved outside the class (Atlas)
  • Fixes in ApplicationMgr and ServiceMgr (Marco Cl.)
  • Aida2ROOT (Vanya) pending, will go to a new package (GaudiUtils)
• Linker options --no-undefined and --as-needed broke Atlas nightlies
  We agree that we should enable them by default, and Atlas can desable them for their build

LHCb, Boole, Brunel (Marco Ca.)

• LHCb in DEV
  • XmlDDDB v40r0 works but has a different entry point, so the option files have been modified to centralize the settings of the entry point
• adding MFD package in LHCb
  • currently plugins for different mass storage systems, should be moved to GFAL

Gauss (Gloria)

• Fix for a problem in production is being tested and will go to v25r8

Round Table

Hubert

Fighting against the problem on AMD64

Florance

Phys v5r0, DaVinci v18r0 and Panoramix v15r0 released on Linux

Marco Ca.

Script LHCbSetup.bat to set CMTPROJECTPATH on win32

Philippe

• setup_external does not work with InstallArea.
  Marco Cl. is aware of it and will try to solve the problem.
• Are the scripts to compile SLC3 binaries on SLC4 machines?
• Which is the status of the implementation of job options in Python.
  No progress has been made.

Marco Cl.

Package Det/SQLDDDB is ready for the release. Few details about how to work with CondDB are still not documented.

-- MarcoClemencic - 16 Feb 2007