Installing VMEDAQ (Mint)

Some notes on installing VMEDAQ.

DAQPP

Didn't like to be installed anywhere but /usr area.

Python

A way to tell configure where to search for python is by using python-config.

Check if python-config is around if not, install it as part of python-dev

GLIB

g_module_symbol is often missing in vmedaq/vata compilation.

The cause are missing GLIB_LIBS in Makefile.am. Adding and running automake from core solves the problem. After that, lz is missing. Correct the same Makefile.am to get it running.

PYTHON

Error:

pymodule_parser.cc:337:42: error: 'pygobject_new' was not declared in this scope

signals missing python-gtk2-dev package.

If you see the following error when compiling and linking vmedaq:

/usr/local/lib/libsoapdaqppServer.so: undefined reference to `PyString_AsStringAndSize'

it means that configure failed to locate your python libraries. Often, the m4 script in analysis does a better job, so copy it over and rerun 'aclocal' and 'autoconf':

#> mv scripts/python.m4 scripts/python.m4.old
#> cp analysis/scripts/python.m4 scripts
#> aclocal -I scripts
#> autoconf
#> ./configure

And so on.

DOCs part

I had troubles with makefile trying to copy vmedaq.xml onto itself. I ended up replacing the line 

cp -a $< .

with 

if [ ! -e $< ] ; then cp -a $< . ; fi

which checks before it attempts to copy.

Also, the command 

db2pdf

is often missing. It is a part of the 'docbook-utils' package in mint.

Still, 'xsltproc' returns errors which exceed my patience. So, sorry, no documentation. I cancled the doc portion of the processing by omitting 'doc' in the SUBDIRS list in the ./Makefile.am and running 'automake'.

ETH setup

My eth1 looks like this

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:04:23:b9:b0:f5  
          inet addr:11.168.1.10  Bcast:11.255.255.255  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::204:23ff:feb9:b0f5/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:742150 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:8472 errors:154 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:154
          collisions:172 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:91688764 (91.6 MB) TX bytes:992830 (992.8 KB)

The actual setup window in Mint looks something like this.

ethSetup

The firewall throws this out

#>sudo ufw status

Status: active

To                         Action      From
--                         ------      ----
11.0.0.0/8 12345 on eth1   ALLOW       11.0.0.0/8 12345

11.0.0.0/8 12345           ALLOW OUT   11.0.0.0/8 12345 on eth1

Configuration files

A batch of configuration files can be downloaded via

git clone http://www-f9.ijs.si/~studen/git/vmedaq_config.git

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