[Rivet] installation problems (partially solved?)

Andy Buckley andy.buckley at durham.ac.uk
Thu Jul 24 15:42:57 BST 2008


Holger Schulz wrote:
> James Monk wrote:
>> Hi Holger,
>>
>> I think your AGILe library may actually be built 32 bit, too 
>> (otherwise how could the 32 bit generator libs be loaded?).  
> I just saw, that the LCG-tag is created by the bootstrap-script using 
> 'uname -m' which returns 'i686'. So I guess
> that having a 64 bit processor installed doesn't neccessarily mean that 
> your system architecture is 64 bit , too.

Correct - often 32 bit OSes are run on 64 bit hardware. Of course, it's
also possible that the bootstrap script is wrong... it is a bit of a hack!

> I am starting from scratch with the latest version of rivet-bootstrap now.

Cool: let us know how it goes.

Andy

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