[Rivet] genser news

[Anton Pytel]

Hello Daniel,

I am technical student for GENSER and I'm developing lightweight 
bootstrap script. I really appreciate your remarks and I'll discuss it 
with others and then implement changes.
Regarding jimmy - I tried to install jimmy 4.2 and seems successfully.
I didn't get your kind of error on my machine, but I had to do some 
tricks, maybe they will work also for you:
- If you have installed herwig on your machine then create symbolic link 
from uppercase include/HERWIG65.INC to lower case include/herwig65.inc
Because my jimmy was complaining about that (this shouldn't happen we 
will check it)
- when prompted for user options for jimmy then add option 
--with-herwig=/path/to/your/herwig/version
This dependency should be solved automatically, but it is not - so I 
will have to check it.

This procedure worked for me and for both jimmy 4.2 and 4.31.3.

Once more time thank you for feedback.

Best Regards
Anton (Pytel)



Daniel Weyh wrote:
> 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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