[Rivet] RivetGun news: dynamic rivetgun reinstated, run params from file...

[Lars Sonnenschein]

Hello Andy


> INTERACTION WITH GENSER
> 
> I'd also be interested to hear any ideas of how we can make rivetgun
> integrate with the GENSER libraries, especially where this runtime
> dynamic loading is concerned. The dynamic library loading is done using
> the LD_LIBRARY_PATH, runpath and rpath fields in libraries, and just
> uses the library name rather than the ful path. Forcing use of the full
> path according to the GENSER scheme would vastly reduce our portability,
> so I wouldn't be keen on doing that.
> 
> I think we should encourage GENSER to make micro-version specific
> symlinks to the generator libraries, e.g. libpythia6408.so ->
> pythia/6408/libpythia.so. I did mention (about a year ago!) that we need
> GENSER to provide .so versions of the Fortran generator libraries as
> well - is that now happening?

There are the following Pythia6 versions available:

drwxr-xr-x  6 mkirsano zh 2048 Mar 27 18:13 227.2
drwxr-xr-x  6 toropin  zh 2048 Jun 18 14:51 326
drwxr-xr-x  6 toropin  zh 2048 Jun 18 14:49 326.2
drwxr-xr-x  6 mkirsano zh 2048 Mar 28 10:22 409
drwxr-xr-x  7 mkirsano zh 2048 Mar 28 10:22 409.2
drwxr-xr-x  6 mkirsano zh 2048 Mar 28 10:34 410
drwxr-xr-x  6 mkirsano zh 2048 Mar 28 10:22 410.2
drwxr-xr-x  6 mkirsano zh 2048 Jun  8 12:54 411
drwxr-xr-x  6 mkirsano zh 2048 Jun  8 12:52 411.2
drwxr-xr-x  6 toropin  zh 2048 Jun 28 17:20 411.3

all of them come with shared libraries.
(as you can see the particular version 6408 does not exist)

Concerning the links, why don't we put them inside the rivetgun 
installation directory, or one of its subdirectories?

	Lars
 
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