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Entry time:	Tue Feb 3 10:58:49 2026
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<p> <table width="98%" align="center" cellspacing="1" style="border:1px solid #486090;"> <tbody> <tr> <td cellpadding="3px" style="background-color:#486090; font-weidht:bold; color:white;">Quote:</td></tr> <tr> <td cellpadding="10px" style="background-color:#FFFFB0;"><p>This is a list of things that should be expected when trying to make and run icemc.</p> <p>1. The directory includes a Makefile.arch, but seems to have lost it’s<br /> StandardDefinitions.mk, which was necessary in previous versions. Is it no<br /> longer necessary?</p> <p><br /> 2. When you try to execute “./icemc” it tries to make an<br /> “outputs/coherent_sum_data_file.root” object. But “outputs” is not a default<br /> directory, so it will fail: “SysError in <TFile::TFile>: file<br /> outputs/coherent_sum_data_file.root can not be opened (No such<br /> file or directory)”.</p> <p> </p> <p>3. The default settings for inputs.conf have the “Apply impulse response to<br /> digitizer path: 1” enabled. However, this can only be done if the Anita tools are<br /> sourced: “Signal chain impulse response can only be applied when<br /> the Anita tools are sourced”. So “icemc” will not run out of the box for a more<br /> “casual” user without anitaBuildTool. See anitaBuildTools for installation. \</p> <p> </p> <p>4. When we source the anita3 input file “./icemc -i inputs.anita3.conf” it has<br /> both the apply impulse response digitizer and apply impulse response trigger enabled<br /> by default. This is in direct contradiction to the GitHub documentation where its says<br /> these are not enabled. Because of this it does not run (since these require the anitaBuildTools). The default should not be<br /> enabled. </p> <p> </p> <p>5. If the user forgets to set the environment variables “ICEMC_SRC_DIR”,<br /> “ICEMC_BUILD_DIR”, and to update the LD_LIBRARY_PATH as instructed on the<br /> GitHub, the code will proceed as if everything is fine by printing the following message:<br /> “Warning! Could not find environment variable ICEMC_SRC_DIR.<br /> Will guess icemc source directory is present working directory”.<br /> However, the code will segfault. When one sets up the<br /> environment variables correctly first, icemc will execute and produce the correct<br /> output files. If icemc cannot actually run without the environment variables set<br /> correctly (which is fine if that's the intentional design decision), then the error<br /> messages are misleading, and should be removed and icemc should return 0 for the<br /> user and tell them to set the variables.</p> <p> </p></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </p><p> </p> Encoding: HTML ELCode plain Suppress Email notification

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