[Rivet] Rivet cannot to be configured with swig

[Frank Siegert]

Hi Kamuran,

are you using the bootstrap script as recommended earlier?

Cheers,
Frank



On 29 March 2017 at 14:17, Kamuran Dilsiz <kamuran.dilsiz at cern.ch> wrote:
> Hi Andy,
>
> Thanks for replying on my e-mail. That solved the problem. But, I encountered another one while doing "make install". The error is like below. Could you please help me fix this?
>
> Making install in src
> make[1]: Entering directory `/afs/cern.ch/user/k/kdilsiz/SHERPA/Rivet-2.5.3/src'
> Making install in Core
> make[2]: Entering directory `/afs/cern.ch/user/k/kdilsiz/SHERPA/Rivet-2.5.3/src/Core'
> Making install in yamlcpp
> make[3]: Entering directory `/afs/cern.ch/user/k/kdilsiz/SHERPA/Rivet-2.5.3/src/Core/yamlcpp'
> make[4]: Entering directory `/afs/cern.ch/user/k/kdilsiz/SHERPA/Rivet-2.5.3/src/Core/yamlcpp'
> make[4]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
> make[4]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'.
> make[4]: Leaving directory `/afs/cern.ch/user/k/kdilsiz/SHERPA/Rivet-2.5.3/src/Core/yamlcpp'
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/afs/cern.ch/user/k/kdilsiz/SHERPA/Rivet-2.5.3/src/Core/yamlcpp'
> make[3]: Entering directory `/afs/cern.ch/user/k/kdilsiz/SHERPA/Rivet-2.5.3/src/Core'
> make[4]: Entering directory `/afs/cern.ch/user/k/kdilsiz/SHERPA/Rivet-2.5.3/src/Core'
> make[4]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
> make[4]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'.
> make[4]: Leaving directory `/afs/cern.ch/user/k/kdilsiz/SHERPA/Rivet-2.5.3/src/Core'
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/afs/cern.ch/user/k/kdilsiz/SHERPA/Rivet-2.5.3/src/Core'
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/afs/cern.ch/user/k/kdilsiz/SHERPA/Rivet-2.5.3/src/Core'
> Making install in Tools
> make[2]: Entering directory `/afs/cern.ch/user/k/kdilsiz/SHERPA/Rivet-2.5.3/src/Tools'
> make[3]: Entering directory `/afs/cern.ch/user/k/kdilsiz/SHERPA/Rivet-2.5.3/src/Tools'
> make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
> make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'.
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/afs/cern.ch/user/k/kdilsiz/SHERPA/Rivet-2.5.3/src/Tools'
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/afs/cern.ch/user/k/kdilsiz/SHERPA/Rivet-2.5.3/src/Tools'
> Making install in Projections
> make[2]: Entering directory `/afs/cern.ch/user/k/kdilsiz/SHERPA/Rivet-2.5.3/src/Projections'
> make[3]: Entering directory `/afs/cern.ch/user/k/kdilsiz/SHERPA/Rivet-2.5.3/src/Projections'
> make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
> make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'.
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/afs/cern.ch/user/k/kdilsiz/SHERPA/Rivet-2.5.3/src/Projections'
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/afs/cern.ch/user/k/kdilsiz/SHERPA/Rivet-2.5.3/src/Projections'
> Making install in Analyses
> make[2]: Entering directory `/afs/cern.ch/user/k/kdilsiz/SHERPA/Rivet-2.5.3/src/Analyses'
> make  install-am
> make[3]: Entering directory `/afs/cern.ch/user/k/kdilsiz/SHERPA/Rivet-2.5.3/src/Analyses'
> make[4]: Entering directory `/afs/cern.ch/user/k/kdilsiz/SHERPA/Rivet-2.5.3/src/Analyses'
>  /bin/mkdir -p '/usr/local/lib'
>  /bin/sh ../../libtool   --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c   RivetALICEAnalyses.la RivetATLASAnalyses.la RivetCMSAnalyses.la RivetLHCbAnalyses.la RivetLHCfAnalyses.la RivetTOTEMAnalyses.la RivetCDFAnalyses.la RivetD0Analyses.la RivetHERAAnalyses.la RivetPetraAnalyses.la RivetLEPAnalyses.la RivetRHICAnalyses.la RivetSPSAnalyses.la RivetMiscAnalyses.la RivetMCAnalyses.la '/usr/local/lib'
> libtool: install: /usr/bin/install -c .libs/RivetALICEAnalyses.so /usr/local/lib/RivetALICEAnalyses.so
> /usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file `/usr/local/lib/RivetALICEAnalyses.so': Permission denied
> make[4]: *** [install-libLTLIBRARIES] Error 1
> make[4]: Leaving directory `/afs/cern.ch/user/k/kdilsiz/SHERPA/Rivet-2.5.3/src/Analyses'
> make[3]: *** [install-am] Error 2
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/afs/cern.ch/user/k/kdilsiz/SHERPA/Rivet-2.5.3/src/Analyses'
> make[2]: *** [install] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/afs/cern.ch/user/k/kdilsiz/SHERPA/Rivet-2.5.3/src/Analyses'
> make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/afs/cern.ch/user/k/kdilsiz/SHERPA/Rivet-2.5.3/src'
> make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Andy Buckley
> Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2017 12:43 PM
> To: Kamuran Dilsiz; Frank Siegert
> Cc: Rivet
> Subject: Re: [Rivet] Rivet cannot to be configured with swig
>
> 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