GlueX Software Setup
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Contents
Software Overview
Required/Highly-Recommended Offline Software
- GSL: Homepage, Source Tarballs
- Xerces: Homepage, Source Tarballs
- CERNLib: Homepage, CERNLib Installation Notes, OpenMotif
- CLHEP: Homepage, Source Tarballs
- ROOT: Homepage, Source Tarballs (e.g. root_v5.34.19.source.tar.gz), Installing from Source
- CCDB: Tagged Releases, Trunk
- HDDS: Tagged Releases, Trunk
- JANA: Downloads, Tagged Releases, Trunk
- Hall-D sim-recon: Tagged Releases, Trunk
- Hall-D scripts: Trunk
Optional Software
- AmpTools:
Build Dependencies
- If you re-build one of the following, you must also rebuild (in order):
Xerces: HDDS, JANA, sim-recon ROOT: JANA, sim-recon CCDB: JANA, sim-recon HDDS: sim-recon JANA: sim-recon EVIO: sim-recon
Environment
- There should be three levels for the software environment: user-specific, release-specific, and base. For best-practice, environment variables should NEVER EVER (!!) be put in your .cshrc (or equivalent) file. This is because if you ever need to switch between environments (e.g. between a "data challenge" release and the latest trunk) it gets very messy and it's very easy to make a mistake. It's far safer (and cleaner) to keep everything separate.
User-Specific Environment Setup
- E.g. env_gluex_pmatt_2014_07_17
Release-Specific Environment Setup
- E.g. env_gluex_2014_06_30_rhel6
Base Environment
env_gluex_base