[Rivet] Rivet cannot to be configured with swig

[Andy Buckley]

Hi Karmuran,

This message means what it says: to build Rivet you need to be using a 
fairly modern C++ compiler. If using g++, it will need to be (I think) 
version 4.8.5 or later.

The lxplus6 system compiler is older -- in fact it's very old, and the 
LHC experiments have *never* used it. The simplest way to get a 
compliant system may be to use the new lxplus7 system instead. You can 
also manually set up lxplus6 to use newer build tools like the 
experiments do, with something like this:

. /cvmfs/sft.cern.ch/lcg/releases/LCG_84/gcc/4.9.3/x86_64-slc6/setup.sh
. 
/cvmfs/sft.cern.ch/lcg/releases/LCG_84/Python/2.7.10/x86_64-slc6-gcc49-opt/Python-env.sh

(I think that should be sufficient, but in general there are a lot of 
components to a consistent environment)

Hope that helps,
Andy


On 29/03/17 09:33, Kamuran Dilsiz wrote:
> Dear Frank,
>
> I installed Rivet-2.5.3. But, when configuring this version, I am having the following error which I do not know how to fix.
> configure: error: *** A compiler with support for C++11 language features is required.
> ________________________________________
> From: Frank Siegert
> Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2017 9:44 AM
> To: Kamuran Dilsiz
> Cc: Rivet
> Subject: Re: Rivet cannot to be configured with swig
>
> Hi Kamuran,
> (+ Rivet developer list in CC)
>
> You should be using the most recent version of Rivet, 2.5.3, instead
> of an ancient 1.8.3. This will also solve your swig problem, since
> that is not necessary for the recent Rivet versions anymore.
>
> Last but not least, if you are not familiar with installing programs
> on Unix systems you might want to use the rivet bootstrap script,
> which will perform the installation automatically for you:
> https://rivet.hepforge.org/trac/wiki/GettingStarted
>
> Cheers,
> Frank
>
>
> On 29 March 2017 at 09:23, Kamuran Dilsiz <kamuran.dilsiz at cern.ch> wrote:
>> Dear Frank Siegret,
>>
>> I am using Rivet-1.8.3. I configured it with HepMC and Fastjet, but it also
>> require swig. I installed swig into my lxplus account and tried to
>> configured Rivet with swig. However, it still gives the following error.
>> Could you please help me solve the problem? Thanks in advance.
>>
>>
>> configure: WARNING: cannot find 'swig' program. You should look at
>> http://www.swig.org
>>
>> ./configure: line 18427: test: too many arguments
>>
>> checking if echo "Error: SWIG is not installed. You should look at
>> http://www.swig.org" ; false can make a Python function wrapper... yes
>>
>> checking if the /usr/bin/g++ compiler accepts the -Wno-format flag... yes
>>
>> configure: adding -Wno-format to swig compilation test
>>
>> checking if echo "Error: SWIG is not installed. You should look at
>> http://www.swig.org" ; false is compatible with the /usr/bin/g++ compiler...
>> no
>>
>> configure: error: Can't build Python extension since echo "Error: SWIG is
>> not installed. You should look at http://www.swig.org" ; false is not
>> compatible with /usr/bin/g++. Get a newer SWIG version!
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Kamuran
>>
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Dr Andy Buckley, Lecturer / Royal Society University Research Fellow
Particle Physics Expt Group, University of Glasgow