[Rivet] rivet on mac osx lion

Andy Buckley andy.buckley at ed.ac.uk
Sat Jun 2 15:09:54 BST 2012


Hi Hannes,

The directories to find standard analysis libraries (with names like
Rivet*.so, even on Mac, I believe) should be found automatically. But
you can try setting (and exporting) RIVET_ANALYSIS_PATH explicitly and
see what happens.

Andy


On 01/06/12 18:53, Hannes Jung wrote:
> Dear James
> 
> thanks a lot for your reply...
> I also thought about this, and I think I have checked that this is not
> the case.
> all is take from /sw/bin (also the g++ is a link to this directory) and
> /sw/bin is the fink installation.
> BTW, do you know, what the switch AC_CEDAR_OSX in configure.as in the
> rivet directory does, and where it gets the environment variables from ?
> If I comment this statement, Rivet compiles without problem, only it
> seems not to find the proper directories where the analyses etc are ...
> but tis might be a problem of the environment variables...
> 
> thanks a lot
> Cheers
> 
> Hannes
> 
> On 01.06.2012, at 14:01, James Monk wrote:
> 
>> Hi Hannes,
>>
>> Sorry for the slightly tardy response on this.
>>
>> I see you are using Fink, and that configure is picking up python from
>> /sw/bin, and that it is also picking up g++ from /Users/jung/bin .
>>  Both of those are not where I would expect the standard system-wide
>> installations to be, so is it possible you have multiple, and perhaps
>> conflicting, installations of either python and/or gcc and the stdlibs?
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> James
>>
>> On 17 May 2012, at 13:01, Hannes Jung wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Hendrik
>>>
>>> ok, this is then the result:
>>> ------
>>> ~/jung/cvs/rivet> rivet  --list-analyses  
>>> python(94831) malloc: *** error for object 0x7fff73dcf860: pointer
>>> being freed was not allocated
>>> *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
>>> zsh: abort      rivet --list-analyses
>>>
>>> and
>>>
>>> ~/jung/cvs/myrivet> source /Users/jung/jung/cvs/rivet/rivetenv.sh
>>> ~/jung/cvs/myrivet> rivet-mkhtml pythia_z2_merged.aida
>>> python(94891) malloc: *** error for object 0x7fff73dcf860: pointer
>>> being freed was not allocated
>>> *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
>>> zsh: abort      rivet-mkhtml pythia_z2_merged.aida
>>> ------
>>>
>>> Hm....
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Hannes
>>>
>>>
>>> On 17.05.2012, at 13:51, Hendrik Hoeth wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thus spake Hannes Jung (hannes.jung at cern.ch
>>>> <mailto:hannes.jung at cern.ch>):
>>>>
>>>>> even with disabling the pdfmanual, the problem remains (... the
>>>>> python issue).
>>>>
>>>> Oh well, it seems the html manual is built anyway ... Try make install
>>>> nevertheless. You'll see the same error, but the manual is built as last
>>>> step, so the rest of the installation should succeed. The try if Rivet
>>>> runs. Good luck!
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft, and
>>>> the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.
>>>>                                      -- Wernher von Braun
>>>
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