[Rivet] AGILe generators.

[Andy Buckley]

On 12/07/11 17:08, Pablo Bueno-Gomez wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We have just installed Rivet and AGILe (Scientific Linux CERN 5) but it
> seems that AGILe can't find any generator. We have run the script of
> Genser generators following the steps:
> http://projects.hepforge.org/rivet/trac/wiki/GenserMirror,and set
> AGILE_GEN_PATH to where the generators are. When we use: agile-runmc
> --list-gens, no generators appear (although everything seems to be
> properly installed). Any suggestions would be welcome. Thank you very much.

Hi Pablo,

Thanks for the report and sorry that it didn't go smoothly. The Genser 
generator installation is still an awkward point! I've not run Genser's 
own generator script for a long time, so am not an expert in how that 
behaves these days: can you post a few example paths to generator 
libraries, e.g. libpythia.so, relative to the main $AGILE_GEN_PATH location?

For debugging the generator loading, if you add the flag -lTRACE to the 
agile-runmc command line, you will get a *lot* of output which reports 
all the library loading locations being attempted. Hopefully from that 
you will be able to work out what is going wrong... a common issue is a 
mismatch in LCG platform tag. If you do find out what didn't work, and 
the problem seems to be on the AGILe side, please let us know and we'll 
see what we can do to fix it.

Best wishes,
Andy

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