[Rivet] undefined MAIN?

Andy Buckley andy.buckley at ed.ac.uk
Fri Dec 18 20:05:59 GMT 2009


James Monk wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to get the Rivet svn head version running privately in  
> Athena (to access the UA5 analyses).  When Athena links it there is an  
> error of a missing main:
> 
> ERROR: /home/jmonk/Genser/rivet//r2198/slc4_ia32_gcc34/lib/libRivet.so. 
> 5: undefined symbol: MAIN__
> 
> This stumps me a bit really as Rivet shouldn't itself have any  
> references to main, and neither should anything it links against - or  
> has that changed?

That's weird -- usually those dummy main symbols only appear from 
Fortran code. Do you actually see a "U" symbol for "MAIN__" when you use

nm /home/jmonk/Genser/rivet//r2198/slc4_ia32_gcc34/lib/libRivet.so | 
grep "MAIN__"

?

Andy

-- 
Dr Andy Buckley
SUPA Advanced Research Fellow
Particle Physics Experiment Group, University of Edinburgh


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