[Rivet] problems with RivetGun/Alpgen

[Eike von Seggern]

Hi Peter,

the installation directory can be set with ./configure:

./configure --prefix /somewhere/you/have/access

eike


On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 19:08 -0500, renkel at physics.smu.edu wrote:
> Hi Andy,
> 
> So what I did was I copied AGILe from lxplus, make clean, configure, 
> make all, make install
> 
> At make install, the system complained that it can not write to 
> /usr/local/. Since I don't access there, I tried to use make install 
> exec_prefix=my_directory.
> 
> It still wanted /usr/local/, so I just copied all the libraries by hand.
> 
> Now when I start like that:
> 
> agile-runmc AlpGenPythia6:420 -P falppyt-default.params -n 100
> 
> It works, but asks me about some file. It looks like Pythia does not 
> get information from ALPGEN. Here is the output.
> 
> 
>      Error type 8 has occured after        0 PYEXEC calls:
>      (PYGIVE:) do not recognize variable ALPGEN
> 1****************** PYINIT: initialization of PYTHIA routines 
> *****************
> INPUT NAME OF FILE CONTAINING EVENTS
> (FOR "file.unw" ENTER "file")
> list in: end of file
> apparent state: unit 5 (unnamed)
> last format: list io
> lately reading sequential formatted external IO
> 
> What can I do here please?
> 
> Peter.
> 
> PS. D0 does not have SVN
> 
> Quoting Andy Buckley <andy.buckley at ed.ac.uk>:
> 
> > On 13/04/10 21:20, renkel at physics.smu.edu wrote:
> >> Hi Andy,
> >>
> >> There is no boost at FNAL. I used it to install it at FNAL, but if I
> >> want to install it on lxplus, it takes 100M of memory. This amount of
> >> data I can not put on lxplus to copy to my fermilab account. Is there
> >> any way out please? Can I just copy Rivet and Agile, and then install
> >> boost from FNAL somehow please?
> >
> > You can (and should) just copy AGILe: we wouldn't advise using the HEAD
> > version of Rivet at the moment as it is being actively developed.
> > Hopefully you can find a system copy of Boost at FNAL... it doesn't
> > sound like the most flexible or up to date system... they *really* still
> > haven't installed an SVN client?!
> >
> > Andy
> >
> > --
> > Dr Andy Buckley
> > SUPA Advanced Research Fellow
> > Particle Physics Experiment Group, University of Edinburgh
> >
> 
> 
> 
> 
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