ALICE Forward Detectors

ALICE
Forward Detectors: T0, V0 and FMD

FWD

FMD

Front-End Electronics: Software

Script		Helper installation script
Developed at NBI		Developed elsewhere in ALICE
Rcu++	RCU Abstraction layer	FeeServer	Front End Server
RcuDb	RCU Database client	FeeClient	Front End Client
RcuConf	RCU Configurator	InterCom Layer	Intercom Layer
RcuIcl	RCU InterCom server	RcuFw	RCU Firmware
Pvss-Rcu++	Rcu++ control script plugin for PVSS II	3rd Party Packages
RcuGsl	RCU Histogramming and Fitting based on GSL	bwidget	BWidget (Needed by DATE)
ReadRaw	Read Raw DATE Data	mysqltcl	MySQL TCL interface (Needed by DATE)
FmdDa	FMD DAQ Detector Algorithms	dim	DIM (Needed by DATE)
altro	USB To Front-End	smixx	SMI++ (Needed by DATE)
altrocc	RCU Instruction Compiler	ace	ACE (Needed by InterComLayer)
RcuData	RCU Data Manipulators	boost	Boost (Needed by InterComLayer)
RcuGui	RCU GUIs	arm-uclibc-toolchain	Linux ucLibc Toolchain
Fmd++	FMD Data manipulators and GUIs	Examples and such.
FeeServer++	FeeServer implmented in C++	FmdFsm	An Example FSM for FMD
Dcsc	DCS card message buffer interface as a stand-alone library
RcuCE	FeeServer Control Engine for the RCU, which used the DCS card message buffer interface. Note, that this requires the C++ version of the FeeServer
RcuConfEdit	A Gtk GUI RCU Configuration database editor.
Fmdda (Bundled)	Make RPM of all code needed for the FMD DA.
FmdFeeServer	FMD feeserver
Miniconf	Daemon and utility to configure front-end electronics in the DCS network
Pedconf	Daemon and utility to upload pedestals to the front-end electronics in the DAQ network
How to make RPMs

Installation script

The script install_hehi_fee.sh will install some of the below packages. Note, that the script is not meant to replace a proper package management system like RPM or APT. Most of the packages can be made into RPMs and DEBs directly by simply doing one of

  make rpm 
  make deb

For most packages, RPMs can be build directly from the sources, by doing

  rpmbuild -ta <package>-<version>.tar.gz

How to make RPMs

Follow these simple steps.

First, you need to check out the sources to your work machine. Suppose you're working on Rcu++, you do

      $ export CVS_RSH=ssh
      $ cvs -d :ext:username@himac02.nbi.dk:/home/hehi/hehi/fmd/cvs co rcuxx

You need to boot-strap the build system. Do
```
      $ autoreconf -i -f 
    
```
Next, you do the changes you need to do.
You should then increment the release number in support/package.spec.in. If you need to make a new version increment the minor version number in configure.ac.
Then, you need to make sure that the distribution is sane. You should do
```
      $ make distcheck
    
```
If this fails, go back and make sure everything is in order.
Next, you should copy the distribution package-version.tar.gz to you DFS area at CERN. You can open a web-page at
```
       https://dfs.cern.ch/dfs/Users/initial/username/
    
```
where initial is the first letter of your username. You can also use Nautilus to browse the DFS exported file system
```
      $ nautilus davs://dfs.cern.ch/dfs/Users/initial/username/
    
```
In both cases you will be prompted for a username and a password.
Once copied to CERN, you need to copy the tar-ball to the Linux DCS worker node. Open a terminal client connecting to cernts.cern.ch (if outside CERN) or directly to the DCS gateway alidcscom001.cern.ch. For example:
```
      $ rdesktop cernts.cern.ch 
    
```
When locked into the gateway, open a command prompt by selecting Run... from the start menu, and type in cmd.

In the command prompt, change directory to your DFS directory

      > G: 
      > cd \Users\initial\username

From there, you should start Psftp and log into the Linux worker node

      > "c:\Program Files\putty\psftp.exe" -l fmd -pw password alifmdwn002

In the FTP session, use normal FTP commands, like put, get, mput, mget, ls, lpwd, lcd, cd, and so on. Put the distribution you just uploaded onto the worker node in the ~/tar directory
```
      psftp> cd tar
      psftp> put package-version.tar.gz
      psftp> exit
    
```
From the gateway, use PuTTY to log into the Linux worker node alifmdwn002. Once in, change directory to ~/tar.
In that directory is a script, build_rpms. Execute that with the packages you want to built as arguments e.g.:
```
      $ ./build_rpms rcuxx rcudata rcugui fmdxx
    
```
Note, that each package will be built and installed completely before moving on to the next package. Therefore the order in which you list the packages is important. The most dependent should be last.
That is it.

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