[Rivet] cannot use rivet-mkhtml and make-plots

[Andy Buckley]

These are a blocker for plotting, not all use of Rivet. I think making 
configure fail because they are missing would be overkill, and maybe 
unhelpful for e.g. deployment to Grid sites from which the YODA files 
will be retrieved before plotting.

Warnings would be fine, though.

Andy


On 12/05/16 11:52, David Grellscheid wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We should add configure checks for these in Rivet. Then the herwig
> bootstrap would not have gone ahead and created a broken installation.
>
> What's the list to check for?
>
> ImageMagick (just 'convert' I guess?)
> LaTeX
> check for explicit LaTeX packages?
>
> anything else?
>
>    David
>
>
> On 05/05/2016 22:51, roberto franceschini wrote:
>> Hello,
>>   I needed imagemagick, which was not installed on this machine. Now it
>> works!
>> Thanks for helping.
>> Roberto
>>
>> PS
>> Have I missed it (maybe because I got rivet from the big package of
>> Herwig7
>> bootstrap) or is written somewhere that Latex and imagemagick are needed?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 2:39 PM, Chris Pollard <cpollard at cern.ch> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Roberto,
>>>
>>> You can try a few things here:
>>>
>>> - pass the -v flag to make-plots, which should print out more detailed
>>> information on what is failing
>>> - passing the --tex flag to make-plots should give you a tex document
>>> that
>>> you can try to compile using latex directly.
>>>
>>> Maybe that will help you figure out what is still missing?
>>>
>>> Chris
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 1:07 PM, roberto franceschini <
>>> franceschini.roberto at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear Chris, thanks  a lot for your reply.
>>>>
>>>> The make-plot exists
>>>> stat /afs/cern.ch/user/r/rfrances/p/hw7/bin/make-plots
>>>>    File: `/afs/cern.ch/user/r/rfrances/p/hw7/bin/make-plots'
>>>>    Size: 123716     Blocks: 242        IO Block: 4096   regular file
>>>> Device: 12h/18d Inode: 61247862    Links: 1
>>>> Access: (0755/-rwxr-xr-x)  Uid: (56252/rfrances)   Gid: ( 1081/
>>>> t3)
>>>> Access: 2016-04-02 22:06:41.000000000 +0200
>>>> Modify: 2016-04-02 22:06:41.000000001 +0200
>>>> Change: 2016-04-02 22:06:41.000000000 +0200
>>>>
>>>> but I did not have latex. I have installed it now and checked it
>>>> works on
>>>> a very simple document, but still there are errors from
>>>> rivet-mkhtml. Is
>>>> there a particular subset of latex I should check is working?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks a lot for your help,
>>>> Roberto
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 1:16 PM, Chris Pollard <cpollard at cern.ch> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Roberto,
>>>>>
>>>>> Can you confirm that /afs/cern.ch/user/r/rfrances/p/hw7/bin/make-plots
>>>>> exists? Can you also verify that you have a suitable latex suite
>>>>> installed?
>>>>> That is required for the Rivet plotting scripts.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>
>>>>> Chris
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 5:07 PM, roberto franceschini <
>>>>> franceschini.roberto at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Dear authors, I hope this message finds you well.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have run DELPHI_2002_069_CONF_603 through Herwig7 and I got a Yoda
>>>>>> file. Using yoda2plain and manually plotting the data all seems to
>>>>>> be fine.
>>>>>> However I have trouble with the rest of options offered by RIvet,
>>>>>> e.g.
>>>>>> rivet-mkhtml and make-plots.
>>>>>> They give some errors, reported in the attached log file, starting
>>>>>> with
>>>>>> "Problem while testing for external packages".
>>>>>> Maybe this is a common issue, do you have any idea how to fix these
>>>>>> errors?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My rivet came with the boostrap script of Herwig7, and I guess you
>>>>>> might wonder about my
>>>>>> echo $PYTHONPATH
>>>>>> /afs/
>>>>>> cern.ch/user/r/rfrances/p/hw7/lib64/python2.6/site-packages:/afs/cern.ch/user/r/rfrances/p/hw7/lib/python2.6/site-packages:/afs/cern.ch/user/r/rfrances/root/lib:/afs/cern.ch/user/r/rfrances/LHAPDF-6.1.5/buildt/lib64/python2.6/site-packages:/afs/cern.ch/user/r/rfrances/LHAPDF-6.1.5/buildt/lib64/python2.6/site-packages:/afs/cern.ch/user/r/rfrances/LHAPDF-6.1.5/buildt/lib64/python2.6/site-packages
>>>>>>
>>>>>> :
>>>>>>
>>>>>> and
>>>>>>
>>>>>> h7ee>tree /afs/
>>>>>> cern.ch/user/r/rfrances/p/hw7/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/
>>>>>> /afs/cern.ch/user/r/rfrances/p/hw7/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/
>>>>>> ├── LHAPDF-6.1.5-py2.6.egg-info
>>>>>> ├── lhapdf.so
>>>>>> ├── rivet
>>>>>> │   ├── core.so
>>>>>> │   ├── __init__.py
>>>>>> │   ├── __init__.pyc
>>>>>> │   ├── plotinfo.py
>>>>>> │   ├── plotinfo.pyc
>>>>>> │   ├── spiresbib.py
>>>>>> │   ├── spiresbib.pyc
>>>>>> │   ├── util.py
>>>>>> │   └── util.pyc
>>>>>> ├── rivet-2.4.0-py2.6.egg-info
>>>>>> ├── yoda
>>>>>> │   ├── core.so
>>>>>> │   ├── __init__.py
>>>>>> │   ├── __init__.pyc
>>>>>> │   ├── plotting.py
>>>>>> │   ├── plotting.pyc
>>>>>> │   ├── script_helpers.py
>>>>>> │   ├── script_helpers.pyc
>>>>>> │   ├── search.py
>>>>>> │   ├── search.pyc
>>>>>> │   └── util.so
>>>>>> └── yoda-1.5.5-py2.6.egg-info
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks a lot for your help,
>>>>>> Roberto
>>>>>>
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