[Rivet] installation problems (partially solved?)

[Doug Gingrich]

I am having a somewhat similar problems today.

I build a fresh version of rivet/agile using slc4_amd64_gcc34 today at UCL and have
pythia seg faulting at the end in what appears to be a related HepMC-2.03.06 problem.

Doug
> Hi Holger,
> 
> I think your AGILe library may actually be built 32 bit, too  
> (otherwise how could the 32 bit generator libs be loaded?).  If that's  
> true, have you tried configuring with something like this:
> 
> ./configure --prefix=/afs/ifh.de/user/h/hschulz/Software --enable- 
> shared --disable-root --with-boost-incpath=/afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/ 
> external/Boost/1.34.1/slc4_ia32_gcc34/include/boost-1_34_1/boost -- 
> with-hepmc-incpath=/afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/HepMC/2.04.00/ 
> slc4_ia32_gcc34/include/HepMC --with-hepmc-libpath=/afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/ 
> external/HepMC/2.04.00/slc4_ia32_gcc34/lib
> 
> Hope that works!
> 
> James
> 
> On 24 Jul 2008, at 13:49, Holger Schulz wrote:
> 
> > Holger Schulz wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I am currently trying to install the rivet/agile package on the DESY
> >> System which has access to /afs/cern.ch...
> >>
> >> The following error occurs, when I try to build rivet against CERN's
> >> installation of HepMC:
> >>
> >> /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/HepMC/2.04.00/slc4_amd64_gcc34/lib/ 
> >> libHepMC.so:
> >> file not recognized: File format not recognized
> >>
> >> I am trying to build on a SL4 machine with an AMD Opteron CPU.
> >>
> >> If I use a local installation of HepMC to build against, the compiler
> >> does not complain. However, running rivetgun
> >> (e.g. with pythia 6.413 or pythia 6.418)results in Segmentation
> >> Faults, whenever HepMc is to be used.
> >>
> >> Has anyone had similar experiences?
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Holger
> >>
> > I think I have partially figured out what is going wrong. The
> > (successful) installation of AGILe/rivet using my
> > local installation of HepMC runs into segmentation faults, because the
> > generator libraries loaded by AGILe
> > are all 32 bit ones, e.g.:
> >
> >    AGILe.Loader: TRACE  Found
> > /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/MCGenerators/pythia6/416/ 
> > slc4_ia32_gcc34/lib/libpythia6_dummy.so
> >
> > Is it possible to give AGILe a certain lcg-tag to 'dot slash  
> > configure'
> > with? I think there was something like that in a former bootstrap
> > script.
> >
> > I still don't know why the cern's HepMC version doesn't work for me :(
> >
> > In order to use LHAPDF as it is installed at /afs/cern.ch... one only
> > needs to add the appropriate path to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, right?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Holger
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