[Rivet] It's a rivet bug ... 90% sure

[Frank Siegert]

Hi Chris,

On 10/11/11 19:20, Christopher Lester wrote:
>
> $LATEXINPUTS is blank, but I do have a semi-custom $TEXINPUTS
>
> bash-3.2$ echo $TEXINPUTS
> .:/usr/share/texmf/tex//:/usr/share/texmf/bibtex//:/usera/lester/LESTERHOME/proj/latex:/usera/lester/LESTERHOME/proj/papers/STYLES//

If I'm not mistaken, this should include 
${prefix}/share/Rivet/texmf/tex/ and end with a ":". Could you try 
whether that helps?

Best,
Frank




>
>
> My full env is attached as moo.txt.
>
> Also attached are success.tgz containing Rivet.aida and the plots dir
> made from it, and failure.tgz containing Rivet_moo.aida, and the
> (failed, blank) plots made from it.
>
> (rm -rf plots was done between runs)
>
>
>> I just did a similar test with some output from another test:
>>
>> cp Rivet.aida with_underscore.aida
>> compare-histos with_underscore.aida
>> make-plots *.dat
>>
>> and everything worked fine. The path element /with_underscore.aida/...
>> does exist in the .dat files, but make-plots is apparently escaping it
>> as it should.
>>
>> The only things I can think of are that you have an old version of
>> Rivet from before when we fixed this (1.6.0 should be safe; my
>> trunk-about-to-become-1.7.0 version certainly seems to be), or perhaps
>> that you have a local custom setting of LATEXINPUTS or similar that
>> means that underscore.sty is not visible to LaTeX? Rivet's setup
>> script installs some LaTeX packages like that which sometimes aren't
>> available on crappy SLC5, but if your LaTeX setup overwrites the Rivet
>> part of the TeX path then you might be out of luck. This is fixable,
>> though!
>>
>> Hope that helps,
>> Andy
>>
>>
>> On 04/11/11 14:54, Christopher Lester wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm now 90% sure its a rivet bug ...
>>>
>>> At first I thought the problem was that Rivet didn't like the aida file
>>> to have the name [ANALYSIS].aida ... but I disproved that by checking I
>>> could rename other analyses' aida files without problem.
>>>
>>> What I have now found, is that the problem seems only to occur when I
>>> rename the aida file to have an underscore "_" in it.
>>>
>>> So:
>>>
>>> rivet-mkhtml Rivet.aida ; # Works!
>>>
>>> cp Rivet.aida Moo.aida
>>> rivet-mkhtml Moo.aia ; # Works!
>>>
>>> cp Rivet.aida Moo_moo.aida
>>> rivet-mkhtml Moo_moo.aia ; # Fails!
>>>
>>> #(blank plots)
>>>
>>> I hope that helps.
>>>
>>> Anyway, for the moment I now have a work around ...
>>>
>>> On Fri, 4 Nov 2011, Christopher Lester wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Attached are three identical files differing only in name. Rivet.aida
>>>> was generated from a rivet analysis called LESTER_TEST1. THe other two
>>>> files are just copies of the same Aida file, but with different names:
>>>> Moo.aida and LESTER_TEST1.aida.
>>>>
>>>> I find it very odd, then, that
>>>>
>>>> rivet-mkhtml Rivet.aida
>>>> rivet-mkhtml Moo.aida
>>>>
>>>> both work as expected (i.e. make sensible plots) but
>>>>
>>>> rivet-mkhtml LESTER_TEST1.aida
>>>>
>>>> makes "blank" plots ... i.e. goes through all the motions of producing
>>>> png and pdf files and a web page and all ... but makes all the plots
>>>> as uniform expanses of white canvas with nothing on.
>>>>
>>>> Is this a bug or a feature?
>>>>
>>>
>>> -------------------------------------
>>> Christopher Lester 01223 690509
>>> 59 Mulberry Close, Cambridge, CB4 2AS
>>> -----------------------------------------------------
>>> Dr Christopher Lester Tel: +44 (0)1223 337232
>>> Room 952, Department of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory
>>> JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0HE, United Kingdom
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> 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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