[Rivet] Python, Rivet 1.20, CERN AFS, LXBATCH

[Ben Waugh]

On 29/03/10 11:15, Andy Buckley wrote:
> Before running rivet-bootstrap on a 64 bit SLC5 machine like lxplus5, I
> source this gcc43 setup script (since the LCG fastjet, HepMC, etc. are
> all built with gcc43):
> 
> . /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/contrib/gcc/4.3/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/setup.sh
> 
> i.e. set up gcc 4.3 with an LCG tag that also says "gcc43". I'm not sure
> what the other combinations of these setup scripts for gcc43 mean, but
> this is the once that looked most sensible to me!
> 
> Anyway, this has worked for me before... can you see if it works for you?

That is the same script I run at the beginning of my install procedure 
on SLC5. It includes the suspicious line:
  LCGPLAT=x86_64-slc5-gcc34-opt

>> Maybe we should report something to
>> LCG AA, but at the moment I'm not sure exactly what.
> 
> If this setup script solves the problem, then maybe we should
> report/query the other GCC setup scripts. If it doesn't solve the
> problem, then maybe we should ask for this setup to also provide an up
> to date SWIG... in fact, for all I know *this* setup script is already
> doing just that!

Apparently it isn't. I guess this request should go to the "SPI" project?

Ben

> 
> Andy
> 

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