LHCb Core Software Meeting
Date and Location
2015-03-25
10:30 - 11:30
CERN (2-R-030)
Attendees
Ben Couturier,
Gloria Corti,
Joel Closier,
Liang Sun,
Marco Cattaneo,
Marco Clemencic (minutes),
Markus Frank
Subjects
News
Round Table
Marco Cl.
- Fixing bugs in CMake configuration and tools
- Experimenting with the C++ style checker Vera++ in Gaudi
- Ben experimented with clang-format
- Coverity
- started migration of Coverity database from lxbuild161 to DBOnDemand
- will need a VM for the web interface (Joel suggested lbbuildweb)
- once the old version of the interface is accessible again, start the uprgade
- for the analysis we need a physical machine (license)
- Problem with the Doxygen pages (LBCORE-772
) fixed
- Git clones of LHCb projects, shall we proceed?
- Nightlies
- drop lhcb-root5? OK
- discussion with IT to use EOS to store builds artifacts, rpms and tarfiles
Marco Ca.: what's the status of LoKi caches? Some changes required from Vanya (predictable number/name of output .cpp files). If not ready by the end of CHEP, Marco Cl. will do it.
Joel
- We need to retire the SLC5 machines and a few SLC6 machines.
- one is the Coverity machine
- issue with connecting to SLC5 VM for the nightly builds
- lxbuild119 will stay until the end 2015
- Discussion with SFT to have middleware libraries for gcc49
At LIM it was discussed a possible approach to provide grid middleware builds to the experiment. A proposal will be circulated.
Marco Cl.
- In the SFT group meeting there was a presentation about AIDA, mentioning GaudiHive and contributions from LAL.
- Beat would like to have the latest CondDBUI version.
Gloria
- What's the status of CLHEP 2?
- Marco Cl.: at the LIM it was mentioned that RELAX does not build (Pere investigating, Marco Cl. would like to have a look)
Markus
- Could not find a recent build of cx_oracle in cvmfs (probably looking in the wrong place).
Ben
- Trying to compile Geant4 10
- We need to finalize the new deployment procedure.
Liang
- Patched catalog files in LHCBCOND to use alignments from the ONLINE partitions. Deploying it.
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MarcoClemencic - 2015-03-25