Core Minutes 8/13/2013

• ScienceTools:

  As always, see also Science Tools Development Notes for details.

• FSSC:

• Reprocessing: (Tom G.)

  • Today will be Oracle and OS patching, which means disruption to pipeline (Level 1 and reprocessing) and group NFS access.
  • Pass8 reprocessing is pushing 32% complete (Hurrah!)
  • A Pass7 (P7REP) reprocess backfill will start today after the patching activities.
  • New schedule for P7REP replease: target date is Tuesday 10 September.

• Pass8: (Tracy)

• Core talk:

  • GR Windows builds (Joanne) For some time now TkrRecon has failed to build in Windows RM builds. The reason: the bindexplib command (needed to make public symbols available) is too long. With over 90 source cxx files, TkrRecon is much larger than its nearest competitor. The usual work-around is to write the command arguments to a temp file and pass that file to the command. SCons knows to do this for compile and link commands, but it won't work in general since not all commands can read input from a file. Possible courses of action:

    1. Don't attempt to fix SCons build. It is still possible to build TkrRecon: first use SCons to create project and solution files; then do the build within Visual Studio. Either we give up on RM builds and just make Windows builds by hand as needed, or we do the (possibly substantial) amount of work needed to get RM to use the two-stage procedure.
    2. Fix the bindexplib command. There are several approaches:
       • Modify bindexplib itself to read its input to a file; then modify SCons to write a temp file as it does for linking, etc.
       • Write the entire bindexplib command to a bat file and invoke that
       • First create a static library, then invoke bindexplib with input that library, then create dll.
    3. Shorten the bindexplib command so that it's not too long. Two possibilities here:
       • Shorten file paths
       • Split TkrRecon into two new pacakges.
       But the first would not be feasible in all cases and the second would be at best quite disruptive.

    So far, we are gravitating to minimal work: give up on SCons Windows build of GR. The "fix bindexplib command" solutions would be preferable but I can't guarantee that I could get any of them to work and won't have time to investigate further for several weeks at least.

  • RM

    Mac, RHEL5-32, and Windows have all migrated to use Jenkins thanks to Tony and Tom S. RHEL5-64 and RHEL-64 are working with LSF9. The new Mac box has arrived and is being configured by David Leung. All builds on this box, will have to occur locally as the Windows builds do, and then the resulting tar.gz files will be copied over to u35.

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