[Rivet] genser news

[Daniel Weyh]

Hi Anton,

I tried it out for our Rivet+Professor+some generators virtual machine.

I managed to install Pythia6 and Herwig (latest versions in Genser repo) with the lightweight bootstrap script.
But Jimmy seems to not work, configure ends with "./configure: 62: Bad substitution" for latest release, line number 63 for e.g. Jimmy 4.2.

Two more remarks:
The "user options to configuration" is really a nice idea. 
It might be depending on used shell and so on, I found for me $HOME/sw resulting in OME/sw, so shell syntax $(HOME)/sw needs to be used.
Maybe one can somehow use some other form of input or place a note about this in the user interface.
Further, I don't know whether it's possible/easy/wanted/needed by others, or probably it's only my case, but I'd like e.g. some source/build directory for compiling and linking and one install directory (e.g. $HOME/sw) containing the usual bin, lib, ... folders - without the deep MCGenerators/generatorname/version/... (ok, it's probably not flexible enough for you... so sry for philosophizing about this ^^)

Latter things are only comments from my point of view, but any help with Jimmy (within this framework) is appreciated! (with the agile-gender-bootstrap it worked in the past on the same system)

Cheers&thanks,
Daniel

Am 19.07.2011 um 16:10 schrieb Andy Buckley:

> Thanks Anton, that looks great! I've updated the GenserMirror page and will re-point any others that I find.
> 
> Andy
> 
> 
> On 18/07/11 19:00, Anton Karneyeu wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>> 
>> there were a lot of changes and updates to genser web site, code
>> repository (now we use svn) and bootstrap scripts during last months.
>> Could you update rivet GenserMirror page (and others pages) to point to
>> new locations?
>> 
>> New genser web site:
>> http://sftweb.cern.ch/generators/
>> 
>> Bootstrap:
>> 1. previous bootstrap script and instructions (which install full stack
>> of genser machinery, like pkgsrc):
>> http://sftweb.cern.ch/generators/instructions#bootstrap
>> http://sftweb.cern.ch/generators/genserbootstrap
>> 
>> 2. new, "light-weight" bootstrap script (which depends only on genser
>> *-src tarballs):
>> https://sftweb.cern.ch/generators/instructions#lbootstrap
>> http://sftweb.cern.ch/generators/lbootstrapscript
>> 
>> 
>> Any testing and comments are very welcome! :)
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Anton
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