[Rivet] swig version not compatible for rivet installation

[Andy Buckley]

Sure: you don't need to rebuild the Rivet library to use new analyses.
You use the rivet-buildplugin script to compile the analysis code into a
plugin library and then use the RIVET_ANALYSIS_PATH environment variable
to get Rivet to find it at runtime. There's information on the Rivet web
pages and in the tutorials at http://rivet.hepforge.org

Hope that helps,
Andy


On 30/06/13 18:17, Ulla Blumenschein wrote:
> Hello Andy,
> 
> Many thanks for the feedback!
> We would like to add two new analyses. Is it possible to test them with
> the prebuild installation?
> 
> Cheers,
> Ulla
> 
> On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Andy Buckley <andy.buckley at cern.ch
> <mailto:andy.buckley at cern.ch>> wrote:
> 
>     On 30/06/13 11:11, Ulla Blumenschein wrote:
>     > Dear all,
>     >
>     > I  am
>     > using
>     /afs/cern.ch/atlas/software/releases/17.2.8/gcc-alt-436/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/bin/gcc
>     <http://cern.ch/atlas/software/releases/17.2.8/gcc-alt-436/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/bin/gcc>
>     >
>     <http://cern.ch/atlas/software/releases/17.2.8/gcc-alt-436/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/bin/gcc>
>     > and  my PATH
>     > contains
>     /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/swig/1.3.40/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt
>     <http://cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/swig/1.3.40/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt>
>     > <http://cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/swig/1.3.40/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt> at
>     > the beginning
>     >
>     > When I install Rivet I get the message:
>     > checking if
>     >
>     /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/swig/1.3.40/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/bin/swig
>     <http://cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/swig/1.3.40/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/bin/swig>
>     >
>     <http://cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/swig/1.3.40/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/bin/swig>
>     > is compatible with the g++ compiler... no
>     > configure: error: Can't build Python extension since
>     >
>     /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/swig/1.3.40/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/bin/swig
>     <http://cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/swig/1.3.40/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/bin/swig>
>     >
>     <http://cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/swig/1.3.40/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/bin/swig>
>     > is not compatible with g++. Get a newer SWIG version!
> 
>     Hi Ulla,
> 
>     The Rivet 1.x build system tries to get SWIG to make a Python interface
>     for a very simple C++ test program, then reports whether or not it was
>     successful. For some reason it is not being successful with your setup,
>     but this may be an issue with your environment's compiler setup rather
>     than SWIG specifically. Can you look in config.log to find the place
>     where the failure occurs, and post that bit so we have a bit more
>     information?
> 
>     Since you obviously have AFS access, is there a reason not to use the
>     pre-built Rivet installations from
>     /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/MCGenerators_lcgcmt*
>     <http://cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/MCGenerators_lcgcmt*>?
> 
>     Andy
> 
>     --
>     Dr Andy Buckley, Royal Society University Research Fellow
>     Particle Physics Expt Group, University of Edinburgh / PH Dept, CERN
> 
> 
> 
> 
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>     Ulla Blumenschein
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Dr Andy Buckley, Royal Society University Research Fellow
Particle Physics Expt Group, University of Edinburgh / PH Dept, CERN