<div>Great. Can you send us some info about what went wrong with the standalone bootstrap? That should be the more robust one, so it's strange that it failed.</div><br><div>Andy</div><br><div><signature id="initial"><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><div style="padding-bottom:15px;"><div><strong>Dr Andy Buckley, Lecturer / Royal Society University Research Fellow</strong></div><div>Particle Physics Experiment Group, University of Glasgow</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align:top;"></td><td><div style="font-size:0.9em;white-space:nowrap;border-left:2px solid gray;margin-left:20px;padding-left:20px;"><div><div></div><div></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></signature></div><div class="gmail_quote_attribution">On Jul 31 2018, at 2:41 pm, James Howarth <jhowarth@cern.ch> wrote:</div><blockquote><br><div><div>Hi Andy,</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote><div> I'm also tempted to just remove the "lcg" script and only support the completely standalone bootstrap.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I tired that first and it didn’t work. Please keep some support for us techno-idiots who can’t handle the wide variety of architectures out there (a.k.a. mac users :D)</div><div><br></div><div>I forgot to say as well, the smearing functions work fine in this version (or at least I get sensible numbers). I’ll send an email to Ynyr shortly to confirm.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Jay</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote><div>On 31 Jul 2018, at 14:38, Andy Buckley <<a href="mailto:andy.buckley@cern.ch" title="mailto:andy.buckley@cern.ch">andy.buckley@cern.ch</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div>Hi Jay,</div><br><div>Thanks for this... indeed the "lcg bootstrap" wasn't written with lxplus7 in mind, and uses the slc6 LCG packages. We should probably do something about that, although I'm also tempted to just remove the "lcg" script and only support the completely standalone bootstrap.</div><br><div>Rivet 2.6.1 isn't released yet, though, so I'm not sure how that worked!!</div><br><div>Andy</div><br><div><div><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><div style="padding-bottom:15px;"><div><strong>Dr Andy Buckley, Lecturer / Royal Society University Research Fellow</strong></div><div>Particle Physics Experiment Group, University of Glasgow</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align:top;"></td><td><div style="font-size:0.9em;white-space:nowrap;border-left:2px solid gray;margin-left:20px;padding-left:20px;"><div><div></div><div></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div><div>On Jul 31 2018, at 2:08 pm, James Howarth <<a href="mailto:jhowarth@cern.ch" title="mailto:jhowarth@cern.ch">jhowarth@cern.ch</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote><br><div><div>Hi Andy,</div><div><br></div><div>I’ve been playing around with setting up RIVET on the new lxplus7 machines (CentOS) and I the procedure is slightly different from what is on the hepforge getting started page, so I thought I’d send my setup workflow in case you want to update it (the reason I’m using lxplus7 is that the python and gcc versions are fine by default for RIVET).</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Jay</div><div><br></div><div>The First part is the same as the currently described running on AFS:</div><div><code><pre style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.05);padding:0.2em 1em"><div><code><font style="font-size:13px"> cd /scratch/rivet</font></code></div><div><code><font style="font-size:13px"> wget </font></code><code><font style="font-size:13px"><a href="http://rivet.hepforge.org/hg/bootstrap/raw-file/2.6.0/rivet-bootstrap-lcg" title="http://rivet.hepforge.org/hg/bootstrap/raw-file/2.6.0/rivet-bootstrap-lcg">http://rivet.hepforge.org/hg/bootstrap/raw-file/2.6.0/rivet-bootstrap-lcg</a></font></code></div><div><code><font style="font-size:13px"> chmod +x rivet-bootstrap-lcg</font></code></div></pre></code><div>Only I changed 2.6.0 to 2.6.1. The setting up environment part, however, doesn’t work:</div></div><div><code><pre style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.05);padding:0.2em 1em"><div><code><font style="font-size:13px"> source $PREFIX/rivetenv.sh</font></code></div><div><code><font style="font-size:13px"> rivet --help</font></code></div><div><code><font style="font-size:13px"> rivet --list-analyses</font></code></div></pre></code><div>But if you instead run the script in local/env.sh as below, it works (expect for the error described below).</div></div><div><br></div><div>(these exist in local/env.sh)</div><div><div>> source /cvmfs/<a href="http://sft.cern.ch/lcg/releases/LCG_88/gcc/4.9.3/x86_64-slc6/setup.sh" title="http://sft.cern.ch/lcg/releases/LCG_88/gcc/4.9.3/x86_64-slc6/setup.sh">sft.cern.ch/lcg/releases/LCG_88/gcc/4.9.3/x86_64-slc6/setup.sh</a></div><div>> source /cvmfs/<a href="http://sft.cern.ch/lcg/releases/LCG_88/Python/2.7.13/x86_64-slc6-gcc49-opt/Python-env.sh" title="http://sft.cern.ch/lcg/releases/LCG_88/Python/2.7.13/x86_64-slc6-gcc49-opt/Python-env.sh">sft.cern.ch/lcg/releases/LCG_88/Python/2.7.13/x86_64-slc6-gcc49-opt/Python-env.sh</a></div><div>> source /afs/<a href="http://cern.ch/work/j/jhowarth/private/13TeV/Rivet/RIVET_2.6/local/yodaenv.sh" title="http://cern.ch/work/j/jhowarth/private/13TeV/Rivet/RIVET_2.6/local/yodaenv.sh">cern.ch/work/j/jhowarth/private/13TeV/Rivet/RIVET_2.6/local/yodaenv.sh</a></div><div>> source /afs/<a href="http://cern.ch/work/j/jhowarth/private/13TeV/Rivet/RIVET_2.6/local/rivetenv.sh" title="http://cern.ch/work/j/jhowarth/private/13TeV/Rivet/RIVET_2.6/local/rivetenv.sh">cern.ch/work/j/jhowarth/private/13TeV/Rivet/RIVET_2.6/local/rivetenv.sh</a></div></div><div><br></div><div>When running the second script I get an error:</div><div><br></div><div>python: can't open file '/cvmfs/<a href="http://sft.cern.ch/lcg/releases/LCG_88/lcgenv/1.3.3/x86_64-centos7-gcc62-dbg/lcgenv*':" title="http://sft.cern.ch/lcg/releases/LCG_88/lcgenv/1.3.3/x86_64-centos7-gcc62-dbg/lcgenv*':">sft.cern.ch/lcg/releases/LCG_88/lcgenv/1.3.3/x86_64-centos7-gcc62-dbg/lcgenv*':</a> [Errno 2] No such file or directory</div><div><br></div><div>Now that file does exist but obviously isn’t readable by python. Rivet seems to run fine without it though. Anyway, hope that’s helpful.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Jay</div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote>