[Rivet] Error with Rivet

Andy Buckley andy.buckley at ed.ac.uk
Wed Jan 30 13:41:45 GMT 2013


That seems very strange... maybe it's something we can improve in our
csh setup script. If you first define that variable via 'setenv
LD_LIBRARY_PATH ""', does it work? Also, did you first source an LCG
setup for gcc46? You'll find the LCG GCC installations in the same
/afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg area.

Andy


On 30/01/13 14:32, Hafeez Hoorani wrote:
> As I am using tcsh, I give the command below which gives me an error:
> 
> source /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/MCGenerators_lcgcmt64b/rivet/1.8.2/x86_64-slc5-gcc46-opt/rivetenv.csh
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH: Undefined variable.
> 
> cheers -- Hafeez
> ________________________________________
> From: Andy Buckley [andy.buckley at ed.ac.uk]
> Sent: 30 January 2013 14:23
> To: Hafeez Hoorani
> Cc: rivet at projects.hepforge.org
> Subject: Re: [Rivet] Error with Rivet
> 
> Hi Hafeez,
> 
> The error is that you are not using an LCG standard platform ("raw" SLC5
> is not one) and hence there are no builds of the required libraries (of
> which FastJet is the first) available on AFS for the platform type
> x86_64-slc5-gcc41-opt.
> 
> The solution is either to set up a standard GCC/Python combination (e.g.
> GCC 4.3, Py 2.6) from the /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/ area, or to disable the
> AFS lookup via the --ignore-lcgext flag. I'd recommend the former, just
> because the default SLC5 setup isn't supported. Or, even easier, set up
> a standard platform and directly source the Rivet setup from e.g.
> /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/MCGenerators_lcgcmt64b/rivet/1.8.2/x86_64-slc5-gcc46-opt/rivetenv.sh
> 
> Hope that helps,
> Andy
> 
> 
> On 30/01/13 14:14, Hafeez Hoorani wrote:
>> Could you please help with the error below:
>>
>> ./rivet-bootstrap
>> Getting http://www.hepforge.org/archive/rivet/Rivet-1.8.2.tar.gz
>> Not overwriting tarball at
>> /afs/cern.ch/user/h/hoorani/public/Rivet/downloads/Rivet-1.8.2.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
>>
>> Best Regards -- Hafeez
>>
>>
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> 
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