[Rivet] problems with RivetGun/Alpgen

[Andy Buckley]

Can you try using the SVN head version of AGILe: I think this problem is
fixed there. We should make a new AGILe release sometime soon, but your
feedback on whether the development version works would be very helpful!

Andy


On 12/04/10 20:10, renkel at physics.smu.edu wrote:
> Hi Andy,
> 
> I am exporting AGILE_GEN_PATH. But the problem is that the system looks for
> /local/lib/libAGILeAlpGen.so, and I have just libAGILeAlpGenFPythia.so
> and libAGILeAlpGenFHerwig.so. If I try to naively rename one of these
> files, AGILE finds the generator, but crashes at execution. Do I need to
> specify something when installing AGILe to have this shared library in
> please? Or can I tell Alpgen to use the files I have?
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> Peter.
> 
> Quoting Andy Buckley <andy.buckley at ed.ac.uk>:
> 
>> On 09/04/10 23:30, renkel at physics.smu.edu wrote:
>>> Hi Holger,
>>>
>>> Sorry, but I still fight with it, The last test agile-runmc --list-gens
>>> fails - it does not give me alpgen. I was not able to track where agile
>>> finds the information on available generators. It goes into some c++,
>>> which I don't understand. May be, you can help me here, then I can put
>>> this information by hand. Thank you!
>>
>> Are you setting and exporting the AGILE_GEN_PATH variable? If you run
>> agile-runmc like so
>>
>> agile-runmc --list-gens -lTRACE
>>
>> you will get an enormous amount of output documenting all the paths and
>> permutations that the library loader searches through to try and find
>> each generator version... that will help you to debug whether you have
>> the correct structure in which to find the AlpGen, PYTHIA, HERWIG, etc.
>> libraries: the trick is to make it look as much as possible like the
>> Genser area on AFS (although it is possible to leave out the
>> platform/architecture tags directories)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Andy
>>
>> -- 
>> Dr Andy Buckley
>> SUPA Advanced Research Fellow
>> Particle Physics Experiment Group, University of Edinburgh
>>
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-- 
Dr Andy Buckley
SUPA Advanced Research Fellow
Particle Physics Experiment Group, University of Edinburgh