[Rivet] More Rivet problems

[Dominic Hirschbuehl]

Hi Andy,

thanks a lot.

> > 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)?
This is now also my impression. I had also an exchange with Roman Lysak
and we found event more inconsistencies. I'll try to get something run
on a SLC machine.

> 
> > 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 completely agree and to be honest I am really disappointed that
everytime we do these kick-off or organisation meetings half a dozen
people show up and tell that they work on it and afterwards they
disappear.


> 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.
Agreed. I would suggest, that we migrate all our routines to Rivet2,
check that they are useful and complete and then give them to
Christian for central validation.

Thanks
  Dominic



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