[Rivet] problems running rivet

Andy Buckley andy.buckley at ed.ac.uk
Sun Mar 13 17:44:13 GMT 2011


Excellent! Happy Riveting :)

On 13/03/11 17:39, Hannes Jung wrote:
> Hi Andy
> 
> sure...
> I am already using 1.5.0 ... 
> and it works fine... and apart from the small tricky things, 
> I am really impressed and happy with it... it's really a nice piece 
> what you provided....
> I like very much the rivet-mkhtml  command, that's really good....
> 
> Thanks a lot
> Cheers
> Hannes
> On 13.03.2011, at 18:29, Andy Buckley wrote:
> 
>> Do you mean doing an installation into the build directory, i.e.
>> "./configure --prefix=$PWD"? That's not a good idea on any sort of system!
>>
>> Not sure why Rivet isn't loading plugin libraries from the current
>> directory: there shouldn't be any reason for that not to work.
>>
>> By the way, the path lookup has been made a bit more user friendly in
>> the new 1.5.0 release: since there are also plenty of bug fixes and
>> improvements, I recommend that you upgrade to that if you're not already
>> using it.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Andy
>>
>>
>> On 13/03/11 17:23, Hannes Jung wrote:
>>> Hi Andy
>>>
>>> sure... it does not depend on the name of the dir, it just needs to be a different name as from where I call it..
>>> I think it is a feature of the mac.
>>> I have a similar problem when using automake with install. If files 
>>> are int he same directroy, it returns an error, whereas on a linus system it doesn't...
>>> But, I have no idea, why it is so ...
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> hannes
>>>
>>>
>>> On 13.03.2011, at 18:20, Andy Buckley wrote:
>>>
>>>> Do I understand that the analysis libraries can only be loaded on your
>>>> Mac if they are located in a directory called "lib"? The directories
>>>> specified in RIVET_ANALYSIS_PATH should be the ones in which the .so
>>>> files are found, and we certainly don't hard-code any requirement that
>>>> these directories be called "lib"!
>>>>
>>>> Andy
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 13/03/11 14:37, Hannes Jung wrote:
>>>>> Dear  Hendrik et al
>>>>>
>>>>> thanks a lot for your reply.
>>>>> The problem was (again) the path name for RIVET_ANALYSIS_PATH.
>>>>> It did not work with 
>>>>> export RIVET_ANALYSIS_PATH=$PWD
>>>>> but it works fine if the .so file is stored in the directory
>>>>> $PWD/lib with
>>>>> export RIVET_ANALYSIS_PATH=$PWD/lib   
>>>>>
>>>>> Maybe this is a specific MAC feature.... 
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers
>>>>> Hannes
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 13.03.2011, at 08:42, Hendrik Hoeth wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Dear Hannes,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thus spake Hannes Jung (hannes.jung at cern.ch):
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> after running successfully now the implemented Rivet analyses, I tried
>>>>>>> the test example.  However I get again stuck with a seg fault. [...]
>>>>>>> Any idea whether this comes from using rivet-nopy ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My magic crystal ball is at the manufacturer's for repair, so you'd have
>>>>>> to create an old-fashioned back trace in order to find the reason. It
>>>>>> ain't that complicated, though. Run in gdb and type "bt" followed by
>>>>>> "enter" after the seg fault occurred.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hendrik
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -- 
>>>>>> It pays to be obvious, especially if you have
>>>>>> a reputation for subtlety.    -- Isaac Asimov
>>>>>
>>>>> ***********************************************************************
>>>>> Hannes Jung 
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>>>>> http://www.desy.de/~jung                                           
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>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> Dr Andy Buckley
>>>> SUPA Advanced Research Fellow
>>>> Particle Physics Experiment Group, University of Edinburgh
>>>>
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>>>> Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
>>>>
>>>
>>> ***********************************************************************
>>> Hannes Jung 
>>> Email: Hannes.Jung at cern.ch
>>> mobile :+49 40 8998 93741
>>> http://www.desy.de/~jung                                           
>>> Tel: +49 (0) 40 8998 3741 (DESY)
>>> Tel: +41 22 76 71691 (CERN)       
>>> CERN - PH
>>> 40-3 B11
>>> CH-1211 Genève 23
>>> Switzerland
>>> ***********************************************************************
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Dr Andy Buckley
>> SUPA Advanced Research Fellow
>> Particle Physics Experiment Group, University of Edinburgh
>>
>> The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
>> Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
>>
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> ***********************************************************************
> Hannes Jung 
> Email: Hannes.Jung at cern.ch
> mobile :+49 40 8998 93741
> http://www.desy.de/~jung                                           
> Tel: +49 (0) 40 8998 3741 (DESY)
> Tel: +41 22 76 71691 (CERN)       
> CERN - PH
> 40-3 B11
> CH-1211 Genève 23
> Switzerland
> ***********************************************************************
> 
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-- 
Dr Andy Buckley
SUPA Advanced Research Fellow
Particle Physics Experiment Group, University of Edinburgh

The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
Scotland, with registration number SC005336.



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