[Rivet] Problems with installing Rivet

[Andy Buckley]

Hi Cigdem,

The issue is that your environment is the default SLC5 one, so you are
picking up the system's gcc4.1 compiler... which (in the infinite design
wisdom of SL/LCG) is not a supported LCG platform!

The Rivet "Getting Started" instructions demonstrate how to set up your
environment with the LCG gcc4.3 before starting the bootstrap process:
https://rivet.hepforge.org/trac/wiki/GettingStarted

I've also added an entry to the troubleshooting page now:
https://rivet.hepforge.org/trac/wiki/TroubleShooting

If it's an easy addition, I'll get rivet-bootstrap to provide a specific
warning for this situation, too.

Cheers,
Andy

PS. You should be able to use an up-to-date pre-built version of Rivet
from the Genser repository... does that not work, or do you need to
change/fix something in the core code?


On 19/04/13 09:36, Cigdem Issever wrote:
> Dear All,
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> I am trying to install Rivet on my lxplus account at CERN.
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> I got the following error message when I executed this command:
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> [issever at lxplus434]~/build% ./rivet-bootstrap --install-agile
> --prefix=~/local
> Getting http://www.hepforge.org/archive/rivet/Rivet-1.8.3.tar.gz
> Downloading http://www.hepforge.org/archive/rivet/Rivet-1.8.3.tar.gz
> Getting http://www.hepforge.org/archive/agile/AGILe-1.4.0.tar.gz
> Downloading http://www.hepforge.org/archive/agile/AGILe-1.4.0.tar.gz
> LCG area available: using LCG-built packages
> Using LCG platform tag = x86_64-slc5-gcc41-opt
> FastJet does not exist at path
> /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/fastjet/3.0.3/x86_64-slc5-gcc41-opt. You
> may wish to use the --ignore-lcgext option
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "./rivet-bootstrap", line 510, in ?
>     sys.exit(1)
> SystemExit: 1
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> An error has occurred while bootstrapping Rivet or one of its
> dependencies. Sorry!
> Please contact the Rivet developers at rivet at projects.hepforge.org
> <mailto:rivet at projects.hepforge.org>, with a description of your
> problem, a copy of this script and any error trace that may have
> appeared and we'll try to get it fixed as soon as possible. Thanks for
> your help!
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> Shall I just ignore the lcg external packages? But I would like to use
> fastjet for example. Can you please suggest a solution?
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> Best Regards,
> 
>    Cigdem
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