[Rivet] More Rivet problems

[Andy Buckley]

On 04/09/14 08:27, Dominic Hirschbuehl wrote:
> Hi Andy, James,
> 
> sorry for bothering you again. 
> Unfortuntly our "private" top routines are still for Rivet 1.X and
> therefore I wanted to compile and run them within Athena.
> However either I am too stupid or something is screwed up.
> I am running on a CentOS 6.5 machine using Athena 17.2.12.5 
> 
> As soon as I try to build our routines, I get the attached error
> message. I tried with different option like -m32 or setting
> asetup 17.2.12.5,here,slc5
> 
> Nothing helped.

I had a look at the message. Very strange -- you have the same version
of gcc as in 17.2.X.Y but getline() seems not to exist. That's very odd:
I wonder if SLC5 has a slightly modified version of gcc relative to
CentOS (or vice versa)?

> During my investigation I found also the following:
> [hirsch at electron routines]$ rivet --version
> rivet v1.8.3
> 
> [hirsch at electron routines]$ rivet-config --prefix
> /afs/.cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/MCGenerators_lcgcmt61f/rivet/1.9.0/i686-slc5-gcc43-opt
> 
> [hirsch at electron routines]$ rivet-config --version
> 1.9.0
> 
> Is this intended, that rivet-config has a different version number, than rivet itself?

I don't see that on my local lxplus build:

$ asetup r6,17.2.X.Y,32,slc5,here
$ rivet --version
rivet v1.9.0
$ rivet-config --version
1.9.0

but without the "here" and local packages, the rivet command doesn't
work properly. I'll look into that, but for now maybe try checking out
External/Rivet and Generators/Rivet_i.

Generally, though, it would be much better to get those routines updated
to Rivet 2. It should be more or less just a matter of replacing

bookHistogram1D -> bookHisto1D
AIDA::IHistogram1D* -> Histo1DPtr
AIDA::IProfile1D* -> Profile1DPtr

and then you can use the nice new features in v2 as well. I see there
was some attempt to start a v1 -> v2 migration, but none have been
converted so far. I/we can help if manpower can be found... is there any
OTP available for this work? Or maybe it could be a final project for
Thomas Balestri's qualification, which ends this month. I also think it
would be good to make a general ATLAS physics validation routine archive
rather than keeping it internal to the top group, which is in line with
Thomas' work.

Andy

-- 
Dr Andy Buckley, Royal Society University Research Fellow
Particle Physics Expt Group, University of Glasgow / PH Dept, CERN