[Rivet] Problem with installation

[Frank Siegert]

Hi Riveters,

I had exactly the same problem on SLC5 and had already emailed Andy 
privately with a suggestion for a fix. I am just waiting for an answer 
before I commit this, since I don't want to break something that he has 
tested.

Frank

James Monk, Wednesday 04 November 2009:
> Hi Dimitry,
> 
> can you tell us what is the contents of the file /etc/redhat-release
> on your system, and what the command lsb_release -rs returns, too?
> 
> cheers,
> 
> James
> 
> On 4 Nov 2009, at 14:28, Dmitry Popov wrote:
> >  Hello Rivet Dev team!
> >
> >  I'm trying to install Rivet tool under SLC4 and from the very
> > beginning
> > encounter some problems. Step by step:
> >
> >  wget http://svn.hepforge.org/rivet/bootstrap/rivet-bootstrap
> >  chmod +x rivet-bootstrap
> >  ./rivet-bootstrap --install-boost
> >
> >  Exits with (this error is the same for lines 44 and 145):
> >    Traceback (most recent call last):
> >      File "./rivet-bootstrap", line 243, in ?
> >        parser.add_option("--lcgtag", default=compute_lcg_tag(),
> > dest="LCGTAG",
> >      File "./rivet-bootstrap", line 44, in compute_lcg_tag
> >        slversion = [int(i) for i in sltest.split()[5].split(".")]
> >    ValueError: invalid literal for int(): (Beryllium)
> >
> >  If to switch commented out line with uncommented one the script will
> > continue
> >    slversion = [int(i) for i in commands.getoutput("lsb_release
> > -rs").split(".")]
> >    #slversion = [int(i) for i in sltest.split()[5].split(".")]
> >
> >  But then it exits due to some problem with paths during or after
> > Boost
> > compilation phase:
> >
> > ./rivet-bootstrap --install-boost
> > Getting http://www.hepforge.org/archive/rivet/Rivet-1.1.3.tar.gz
> > Downloading http://www.hepforge.org/archive/rivet/Rivet-1.1.3.tar.gz
> > Installing a local copy of Boost
> > Downloading
> > http://downloads.sourceforge.net/boost/boost_1_38_0.tar.gz?use_mirror
> >=mesh Configuring in /home/hfm/dpopov/Rivet/build/boost_1_38_0:
> > ./configure --prefix=/home/hfm/dpopov/Rivet/local
> > Building in /home/hfm/dpopov/Rivet/build/boost_1_38_0: make -j2 &&
> > make -j2
> > install
> > Can't find Boost include dir boost-1_38/boost to symlink
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >  File "./rivet-bootstrap", line 517, in ?
> >    sys.exit(2)
> > SystemExit: 2
> > An error has occurred while bootstrapping Rivet or one of its
> > dependencies.
> > Sorry!..
> >
> >> ls
> >
> > build/  downloads/  local/  rivet-bootstrap*
> >
> >> ls local/
> >
> > include/  lib/
> >
> >> ls local/include/
> >
> > boost-1_38/
> >
> >> ls local/include/boost-1_38/
> >
> > boost/
> >
> >> ls local/include/boost-1_38/boost/
> >
> > .. boost *.hpp files and related dirs here...
> >
> >> ll build/
> >
> >  boost_1_38_0/
> >  rivet -> Rivet-1.1.3/
> >  Rivet-1.1.3/
> >
> >  Looks like there is a problem with paths somewhere in the script,
> > I'll try
> > to find it but could you please also look into this?
> >
> >  Cheers!
> >  Dmitry
> >
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