Mantid On Ubuntu 12.04

[Owen Arnold]

Requested that we start looking at this by Nick.

I've cc'd some of the guys in at the SNS as they might want to see how progress with this is going. They might even have already done the migration?

[Stuart Campbell]

​https://builds.sns.gov/job/ornl_precise/

[Stuart Campbell]

The only real change/problem is that there is no longer a libgtest package, only a libgtest-dev package. This is because Google recommends that you should build the gtest libraries at the same time with the same options as the code to be tested.

So, we will need to modify our cmake scripts to build the gtest libraries.

But for now, you can...

cd /usr/src/gtest
sudo cmake CMakeLists.txt
sudo make
sudo cp lib*.a /usr/lib/

[Owen Arnold]

Stuart: Yes, I'm finding the same issue. Otherwise things seem to work okay, I have generated an updated developer metadata package for ubuntu 12.04, which I'll push soon.

I also need to run the same procedure with the Paraview developer metadata package and then switch MakeVates=ON

I agree with the suggestion about building gtest. I suggest we add the gtest 1.6.0 and gmock 1.6.0 source to our TestingTools directory and then build these components ourselves?

[Owen Arnold]

refs #5278 should work for 10.04 and 12.04

Changeset: 9fb824c386db1e7a1134f71f862adb0ceb6a52e8

[Owen Arnold]

refs #5278. Enable PV packaging on ubuntu 12.04

Changeset: 9fb625df6e7091c271ca466b7e53c4df188af1e3

[Owen Arnold]

Works thus far including the VATES stuff. I'm going to create a clean environment where I can test the packaging and deployment.

[Owen Arnold]

Last commit went under #5276 by mistake. ​http://trac.mantidproject.org/mantid/changeset/a5757c076b3b48f987ff8e49bc7c33568c0587d5/

[Owen Arnold]

Running CPack on Ubuntu, should now automatically package for lucid or precise (or give a warning if neither of the previous).

[Owen Arnold]

This should be complete now. Ticket #5345 means that stuart's earlier comment about modifying dev envornments is no longer required.

Tester: Test that Mantid works on ubuntu 12.04.

[Andrei Savici]

The development deb file works fine. It does not include all dependencies required by paraview

[Stuart Campbell]

This ticket has been transferred to github issue ​6124