Attendees: Andrea Valassi, Hubert Degaudenzi, Andreas Pfeiffer, Stefan Roiser, Emil Obreshkov
News
===
New external software installations
---
- qt 4.4.1
- pyqt 4.4.3
- sip 4.7.7
- castor 2.1.7-15
- qt 4.3.0 was rebuilt for osx/105
- a problem in gccxml 0.9 series was found and fixed. The "simulation" of the header filegthr-default.h was not correct. The fix has been applied and provided back to the gccxml developers, now in their repository. The latest gccxml 0.9 has also been patched.
LCGCMT
---
- The Boost date_time library provides nsec resolution, through the LCGCMT interface package this feature can be used with "apply_tag USE_BOOST_TIME_WITH_NSEC_RESOLUTION"
- Several Interface packages for Grid software have been added. These include voms_apicpp, voms_clients, myprox, grid_proxies
- The interface for sherpa has been changed in order to comply to the changes after version 1.1
SLC4
---
- Using SLC 4.7 since 1. Sept.
- Andreas reported that ssh execution of a command (not interactive login) will only contain 3 PATH entries /usr/bin, /usr/sue/bin, /bin (before also contained /usr/X11/bin).
Opengrok
---
- The test website is available at https:// j2eeps.cern.ch/test-lcg-opengrok/ . It contains tests for Atlas and LHCb
Round Table
===
Atlas
---
- nothing to report
CMS
---
- Andreas reported a bug in ROOT 5.18. A template class with a name of more than 256 chars cannot be handled, because of some hardcoded limit in TClass. Hubert reported that LHCb has found a similar issue with dynamic loading of libraries (max total length of path and lib also 256).
LHCb
---
- a new macro which points to the home of the project, the name is <PROJECT>_home has been moved from GAUDI to LCGCMT. Now available in all production branches.
Persistency
---
Andrea reported about windows porting problems to VC9
- the execution of some test applications is failing
- qmtest and gccxml don't work, they need to be recompiled
- The current boost version (1.35) issues some warnings about "non supported compiler" - we can try to move to 1.36
- Some database tests of the persistency projects failed because the acls for "lcgnight" the nightly build user were not correct for the afs directory containing the access information - fixed now.
- Some COOL tests are still failing - Andrea is investigating together with Zhen.
Aob
===
-
There are minutes attached to this event.
Show them.