[Rivet] rivet on mac osx lion

Hannes Jung hannes.jung at cern.ch
Thu May 17 12:45:46 BST 2012


Dear Hendrik

sorry for the confusing screen-shot... 
Unfortunately the champagne has to wait a bit....  
even with disabling the pdfmanual, the problem remains (... the python issue).
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Making all in include
Making all in Rivet
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
Making all in bin
  CXX    rivet_nopy-rivet-nopy.o
  CXXLD  rivet-nopy
Making all in doc
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=../src/.libs:../src/Tools/yaml-cpp/.libs:/Users/jung/jung/cvs/rivet/install/lib:/Users/jung/jung/cvs/rivet/install/lib::/Users/jung/jung/cvs/rivet/install/lib \
DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=../src/.libs:../src/Tools/yaml-cpp/.libs:/Users/jung/jung/cvs/rivet/install/lib:/Users/jung/jung/cvs/rivet/install/lib::/Users/jung/jung/cvs/rivet/install/lib \
RIVET_INFO_PATH=../data/anainfo \
PYTHONPATH=../pyext: \
/sw/bin/python mk-analysis-html analyses.html
python(93828) malloc: *** error for object 0x7fff73dcf860: pointer being freed was not allocated
*** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
make[1]: *** [analyses.html] Abort trap: 6
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
~/jung/cvs/rivet/build/Rivet-1.7.0> 
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Cheers
Hannes

On 17.05.2012, at 12:27, Hendrik Hoeth wrote:

> Hi Hannes,
> 
> Thus spake Hannes Jung (hannes.jung at cern.ch):
> 
>> still having problems to run rivet on my macbook, after upgrading to
>> osx lion.  The problem occurs in python, the compilation works fine. I
>> have installed fink for osx.  I am using version 1.7.0, but the
>> problem is the same with 1.8.
> 
> Disclaimer: I've no clue about Macs. Other than that they have a nibbled
> apple on their cover.
> 
> Looking at your screenshot (wow, 1.1 MByte to transmit a few bytes
> worth of information!) your problem seems to show when you run "make"
> during your installation. And it shows when building the manual. So I'd
> try to disable the manual (--disable-pdfmanual) and see if Rivet runs.
> If yes, open a bottle of champagne. Otherwise I can just hope that some
> other Mac user speaks up (James?), because I won't be able to help.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
>   Hendrik
> 
> -- 
> 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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