[Rivet] rivet analysis path (broken --pwd option?)

[Andy Buckley]

Phew! Have a good weekend...

On 13/06/14 21:26, David Bjergaard wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Ahh, sorry for the noise, the problem was between the keyboard and the
> chair.  I had forgot that $< is the first named prerequisite rather than
> the last in my Makefile.  Nothing is wrong with rivet or its build
> system.  
> 
> Cheers,
> 
>     Dave
> 
> David Bjergaard <david.b at phy.duke.edu> writes:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm completely stymied by this one.  Hopefully some fresh/expert eyes
>> can shed some light on the situation.  Here's my installation
>> prescription:
>>> export LOCAL_PREFIX=$HOME/rivet/local
>>> mkdir -p $LOCAL_PREFIX
>>> cd rivet
>>> wget http://rivet.hepforge.org/hg/bootstrap/raw-file/2.1.2/rivet-bootstrap
>>> chmod +x rivet-bootstrap
>>> INSTALL_PREFIX=$LOCAL_PREFIX ./rivet-bootstrap
>>> alias setupRivet='source ~/$LOCAL_PREFIX/rivetenv.sh; export PYTHIA8DATA=$(pythia8-config --datadir)/xmldoc'
>>> mkdir -p $HOME/rivet/Analysis
>>> cd $HOME/rivet/Analysis
>>> # checkout analysis code from github
>>> cd rivet-charmonium/
>>> setupRivet 
>>> make; make install
>> The only thing that isn't standard rivet protocol is that I'm using a
>> Makefile to build and install an external library
>> (libBOOSTFastJets.so). A week ago this procedure worked great.  Now when
>> I do:
>>> rivet --pwd --analysis=MC_GENSTUDY_CHARMONIUM hepmc.fifo
>> I get:
>>> 'MC_GENSTUDY_CHARMONIUM' is not a known Rivet analysis! Do you need to set RIVET_ANALYSIS_PATH or use the --pwd switch?
>>
>>> There are 236 currently available analyses:
>> (I've snipped the list of analyses, needless to say
>> MC_GENSTUDY_CHARMONIUM isn't in the list.) 
>>
>> My first instinct was that there was a difference in python versions.
>> I've successfully used this prescription on my laptop with python 2.7.6,
>> the interactive node with python 2.7.7 built from source.  This machine
>> is running 2.6.6, but I've since upgraded to 2.7.7 and still have the
>> issue. I'm re-running the whole procedure on my laptop to make sure that
>> this is a rivet issue and not some wonky version problem with python,
>> but I'm not hopeful.  This procedure worked Monday, why is it broke now?
>>
>> Was there a silent change to rivet-buildplugin that makes it more
>> sophisticated than calling the right g++ incantation?  
>>
>> Confused,
>>
>>     Dave
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Dr Andy Buckley, Royal Society University Research Fellow
Particle Physics Expt Group, University of Glasgow / PH Dept, CERN