LHCb Core Software Meeting

Date and Location

13-Jul-2011
10:45 - 11:15
CERN (2-R-030)

Attendees

Gloria Corti, Gregoire Astruc, Hubert Degaudenzi, Illya Shapoval, Marco Clemencic (minutes), Martin Plajner, Thomas Hartmann (EVO)

Subjects

News

• Martin Plajner is the new summer student
  • he works on the implementation of tools to configure the environment in a platform-independent way and such that can be used with tools like CMT or CMake

Round Table

Gregoire

• Presented the current status of the Eclipse plugins
  • live demo of the basic usage
    • create a local project based on a released one (SetupProject --build-env)
    • populate a project with existing packages (getpack)
    • create a new package
  • feedback required (savannah project, to be linked from the plugin "about" page)
• Marco Cl. will update the shared installation of Eclipse with the new plugins, so that everybody can profit from it
  Note: the latest version requires some fixes in LbScripts.
• The plugins can be installed on local Eclipse installations following the instructions in EclipsePluginsTutorial.
• Preparing a copy of the basic Gaudi tutorials using Eclipse instead of Emacs

Marco Cl.

• Submitted abstract for ACAT about CMake configuration.
• Starting to work on the Gaudi patches (several new ones coming from Atlas)

Gloria

• Witek's summer student is working on the interfaces to the generators
  • discussion ongoing to properly support the multiple versions of HepMC

Hubert

• Switch LbScripts v6r3 to "production" today (required to use the package CPConfig in production).
• Rob requested to use tcmalloc in production, but it requires the new version (1.7) not yet available in our releases.
  • It is possible to deploy it using LHCbGrid, but we need to know how urgent it is or when it has to be available.

Thomas

• Problems with CASTOR last week because of a misconfiguration of the firewall on the lxbuild machines.
  • Preparing a twiki page to describe the requirements for the configuration of the build machines.

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-- MarcoClemencic - 13-Jul-2011