[Rivet] Error with Rivet

Hafeez Hoorani Hafeez.Hoorani at cern.ch
Wed Jan 30 13:45:38 GMT 2013


Hi Andy

I will try later tonight and come back to you in case of problem.

cheers -- Hafeez
On 30/01/2013 14:41, Andy Buckley wrote:
> 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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>>
>> --
>> Dr Andy Buckley, Royal Society University Research Fellow
>> Particle Physics Expt Group, University of Edinburgh
>>
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>>
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