[Rivet] Rivet installation -- AFS

[Andy Buckley]

On 26/07/10 16:41, Sercan Sen wrote:
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> I successfully installed Rivet (--with agile) on my MAC, however, I've  
> some problems to use Rivet on lxplus machines. I follow the  
> instructions given on the webpage http://projects.hepforge.org/rivet/trac/wiki/GettingStarted 
> , and use gcc43. Now it seems agile-runmc is available but not running  
> properly.
> 
> I list the steps and try to give more information about the problem on  
> the following page, http://ssen.web.cern.ch/ssen/PUBLIC/Rivet/RivetInstall_LXPLUS.html 
>    . (If more information is needed, please let me know).
> 
> Do you have any suggestion about this problem ?

Hi Sercan,

I think the problem is due to the undefined TEXMFHOME variable in your
tcsh shell: on bash etc. the undefined variable will be silently
replaced with a blank, but on csh shells (which most of us Rivet/AGILe
developers are unfamiliar with) it seems to throw an error.

My suspicion is that as a result the setenv lines below that for
TEXMFHOME have not been called, hence the missing PYTHONPATH.

I suggest that you edit the rivetenv.csh file to remove the references
to undefined variables. I will try to fix this in the bootstrap script
for the next release: let us know if it solves your problem.

Andy

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