[Rivet] AGILe 1.3.0 installation bug

[Andy Buckley]

Excellent -- thanks Mikhail :)

On 14/08/11 19:04, Mikhail KIRSANOV wrote:
> Hello, Andy, I fixed it.
> Sorry for this. I understand why this happened, because to obtain those
> scripts I ran the installation procedure without real reinstalling (in
> order not to check again the correctness of the installation).
> I was going to add copying the scripts to our installation Makefile, as
> well as the creation of platform links. However, I still think that the
> correct place for this copying is in your build system, in the target
> install. You could just make it conditional and not do it if the
> installation path is /usr/local.
> Cheers, Mikhail
>
>
> Andy Buckley wrote:
>> (Trying again with new Genser address!)
>>
>> Hi again Gensers,
>>
>> We noticed during the LPCC tutorial that there is a problem with the
>> Genser installation of AGILe 1.3.0, which looks to me like the DESTDIR
>> hasn't been used during installation, so path searching is broken when
>> you relocate the binary. The easiest way to see this is via the
>> agile-config script:
>>
>> abuckley at lxplus248:~$ agile-config --datadir
>> /afs/.cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/MCGenerators/.work/GBUILD/external/MCGenerators_hepmc2.06.05/agile/1.3.0/share/AGILe
>>
>>
>> This should instead return something like
>>
>> /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/MCGenerators_hepmc2.06.05/agile/1.3.0/share/AGILe
>>
>>
>> and the fact that it doesn't means that the use of the standard params
>> files (as specified with e.g. -P fpythia-minbias.params) doesn't work.
>> By comparison, for Rivet the correct thing appears to be being done
>> for the binary relocation:
>>
>> abuckley at lxplus248:~$ rivet-config --datadir
>> /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/MCGenerators_hepmc2.06.05/rivet/1.6.0/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/share/Rivet
>>
>>
>> Can the AGILe installation be fixed to use the same install scheme as
>> Rivet, please?
>>
>> Thanks again,
>> Andy
>>
>


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