[Rivet] undefined MAIN?

[James Monk]

Some more information:  this only seems to happen when I build on a 32  
bit machine for slc4_ia32 - slc4_amd64 seems to work.

Perhaps one of the Genser ia32 libs Rivet depends on is incorrectly  
built?

James

On 18 Dec 2009, at 20:18, Andy Buckley wrote:

> Hmm, where on earth are those coming from? There shouldn't be *any*  
> main function in a library! From my local build of Rivet HEAD:
>
> $ nm src/.libs/libRivet.so | grep MAIN__
> $ nm src/.libs/libRivet.so | grep main
> 00000000000a4c90 T _ZNK5Rivet7WFinder19remainingFinalStateEv
> 00000000000a7bd0 T _ZNK5Rivet7ZFinder19remainingFinalStateEv
>
> So it's something about how it's been built on lxplus, I think.
>
> Andy
>
>
> James Monk wrote:
>> yup, checked that already:
>> MAIN__ U
>> ...later
>> main T 00000000000dd8f0 000000000000004b
>> James
>> On 18 Dec 2009, at 20:05, Andy Buckley wrote:
>>> James Monk wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I'm trying to get the Rivet svn head version running privately  
>>>> in  Athena (to access the UA5 analyses).  When Athena links it  
>>>> there is an  error of a missing main:
>>>> ERROR: /home/jmonk/Genser/rivet//r2198/slc4_ia32_gcc34/lib/ 
>>>> libRivet.so. 5: undefined symbol: MAIN__
>>>> This stumps me a bit really as Rivet shouldn't itself have any   
>>>> references to main, and neither should anything it links against  
>>>> - or  has that changed?
>>>
>>> That's weird -- usually those dummy main symbols only appear from  
>>> Fortran code. Do you actually see a "U" symbol for "MAIN__" when  
>>> you use
>>>
>>> nm /home/jmonk/Genser/rivet//r2198/slc4_ia32_gcc34/lib/libRivet.so  
>>> | grep "MAIN__"
>>>
>>> ?
>>>
>>> Andy
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Dr Andy Buckley
>>> SUPA Advanced Research Fellow
>>> Particle Physics Experiment Group, University of Edinburgh
>
>
> -- 
> Dr Andy Buckley
> SUPA Advanced Research Fellow
> Particle Physics Experiment Group, University of Edinburgh