<div dir="ltr">I agree with Andy here: a warning at configure time is the right level of information for a user; an error is too much. Maybe we could also print out more useful error messages when make-plots (et al) fail to find latex or imagemagick on the system? I think right now it's unclear to users what the problem is when plot making crashes.<div><div> </div><div>Chris</div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 12:10 PM, Andy Buckley <<a href="mailto:andy.buckley@cern.ch" target="_blank">andy.buckley@cern.ch</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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<div><div> On 12/05/16 11:52, David Grellscheid wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> 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: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> 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 <<a href="mailto:cpollard@cern.ch" target="_blank">cpollard@cern.ch</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> 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 < <a href="mailto:franceschini.roberto@gmail.com" target="_blank">franceschini.roberto@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Dear Chris, thanks a lot for your reply. The make-plot exists stat /afs/<a href="http://cern.ch/user/r/rfrances/p/hw7/bin/make-plots" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">cern.ch/user/r/rfrances/p/hw7/bin/make-plots</a> File: `/afs/<a href="http://cern.ch/user/r/rfrances/p/hw7/bin/make-plots" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">cern.ch/user/r/rfrances/p/hw7/bin/make-plots</a>' 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 <<a href="mailto:cpollard@cern.ch" target="_blank">cpollard@cern.ch</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Hi Roberto, Can you confirm that /afs/<a href="http://cern.ch/user/r/rfrances/p/hw7/bin/make-plots" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">cern.ch/user/r/rfrances/p/hw7/bin/make-plots</a> 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 < <a href="mailto:franceschini.roberto@gmail.com" target="_blank">franceschini.roberto@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> 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/ <a href="http://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" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">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</a> : and h7ee>tree /afs/ <a href="http://cern.ch/user/r/rfrances/p/hw7/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">cern.ch/user/r/rfrances/p/hw7/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/</a> /afs/<a href="http://cern.ch/user/r/rfrances/p/hw7/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">cern.ch/user/r/rfrances/p/hw7/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/</a> â”œâ”€â”€ LHAPDF-6.1.5-py2.6.egg-info â”œâ”€â”€ lhapdf.so â”œâ”€â”€ rivet â”‚ â”œâ”€â”€ core.so â”‚ â”œâ”€â”€ __init__.py â”‚ â”œâ”€â”€ __init__.pyc â”‚ â”œâ”€â”€ plotinfo.py â”‚ â”œâ”€â”€ plotinfo.pyc â”‚ â”œâ”€â”€ spiresbib.py â”‚ â”œâ”€â”€ spiresbib.pyc â”‚ â”œâ”€â”€ util.py â”‚ â””â”€â”€ util.pyc â”œâ”€â”€ rivet-2.4.0-py2.6.egg-info â”œâ”€â”€ yoda â”‚ â”œâ”€â”€ core.so â”‚ â”œâ”€â”€ __init__.py â”‚ â”œâ”€â”€ __init__.pyc â”‚ â”œâ”€â”€ plotting.py â”‚ â”œâ”€â”€ plotting.pyc â”‚ â”œâ”€â”€ script_helpers.py â”‚ â”œâ”€â”€ script_helpers.pyc â”‚ â”œâ”€â”€ search.py â”‚ â”œâ”€â”€ search.pyc â”‚ â””â”€â”€ util.so â””â”€â”€ yoda-1.5.5-py2.6.egg-info Thanks a lot for your help, Roberto _______________________________________________ Rivet mailing list <a href="mailto:Rivet@projects.hepforge.org" target="_blank">Rivet@projects.hepforge.org</a> <a href="https://www.hepforge.org/lists/listinfo/rivet" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.hepforge.org/lists/listinfo/rivet</a> </blockquote> </blockquote> </blockquote> </blockquote> _______________________________________________ Rivet mailing list <a href="mailto:Rivet@projects.hepforge.org" target="_blank">Rivet@projects.hepforge.org</a> <a href="https://www.hepforge.org/lists/listinfo/rivet" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.hepforge.org/lists/listinfo/rivet</a> </blockquote> _______________________________________________ Rivet mailing list <a href="mailto:Rivet@projects.hepforge.org" target="_blank">Rivet@projects.hepforge.org</a> <a href="https://www.hepforge.org/lists/listinfo/rivet" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.hepforge.org/lists/listinfo/rivet</a> </blockquote> </div></div> -- Dr Andy Buckley, Lecturer / Royal Society University Research Fellow Particle Physics Expt Group, University of Glasgow<div><div> _______________________________________________ Rivet mailing list <a href="mailto:Rivet@projects.hepforge.org" target="_blank">Rivet@projects.hepforge.org</a> <a href="https://www.hepforge.org/lists/listinfo/rivet" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.hepforge.org/lists/listinfo/rivet</a></div></div></blockquote></div> </div></div></div>