[Rivet] HepMC static

[Jon Butterworth]

Hi James,

James Monk wrote:
> Hi Riveteers,
> 
> The version of HepMC that we are distributing at Cedar only builds a  
> static library on OS X, which is obviously going to cause some  
> problems for RivetGun dynamic loading.  I've modified the HepMC build  
> script to make a dynamic library as well and everything seems to be  
> fine (once again, only OS X >= v3). I'll put that version of HepMC in  
> the Cedar downloads area (still the same version 2.02.00), which you  
> will need to install if you want to run Rivet on OS X (is anyone else  
> using it?).  Nothing changes on Linux, obviously.  Should I notify  
> the HepMC developers that they need to make this change in all future  
> releases, or do we make the release anyway?

Lynn Garren and Lars are in principle developers for this and should be 
informed (I presume Lars is on this list now :)

Why are we distributing HepMC though? I took it straight from the HepMC 
web pages myself... Would be better if we could avoid distributing it. 
Anyone know why we do?

Did you try the version for the HepMC web pages?

Cheers,
Jon

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