[Rivet] Agile can't find generators

[Gavin Hesketh]

d'oh... changing:
AGILE_GEN_PATH=/path/to/genser/
to:
export AGILE_GEN_PATH=/path/to/genser/

in my agileenv.sh indeed fixed the problem. Thanks Andy!

Gavin


On 25/04/11 15:12, Andy Buckley wrote:
> On 23/04/11 12:56, Gavin Hesketh wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I've just moved to the new agile 1.2.2 but it can't seem to find my
>> locally installed generators.
>>
>> I've installed alpge, pythia, herwig, and set AGILE_GEN_PATH, eg:
>>
>>> ls $AGILE_GEN_PATH
>> agile-genser-bootstrap* alpgen/  downloads/  herwig/  jimmy/  pythia6/
>>
>> and:
>> $AGILE_GEN_PATH/pythia6/425.2/x86_64-Linux-gcc44-opt
>>
>> seems to contain all the right stuff. But:
>>
>>> agile-runmc  -l TRACE
>>
>> AGILe.Loader: TRACE  Trying to find libs for AlpGenHerwig:HEAD:HEAD
>> AGILe.Loader: TRACE  Testing for
>> /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/MCGenerators/herwig/HEAD.3/x86_64-Linux-gcc44-opt/lib/libherwig.so
>>
>> AGILe.Loader: TRACE  Testing for
>> /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/MCGenerators/herwig/HEAD.2/x86_64-Linux-gcc44-opt/lib/libherwig.so
>>
>> AGILe.Loader: TRACE  Testing for
>> /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/MCGenerators/herwig/HEAD/x86_64-Linux-gcc44-opt/lib/libherwig.so
>>
>> AGILe.Loader: TRACE  Testing for
>> /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/MCGenerators/herwig/HEAD.3/lib/libherwig.so
>> AGILe.Loader: TRACE  Testing for
>> /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/MCGenerators/herwig/HEAD.2/lib/libherwig.so
>> AGILe.Loader: TRACE  Testing for
>> /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/MCGenerators/herwig/HEAD/lib/libherwig.so
>> AGILe.Loader: TRACE  Testing for
>> /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/MCGenerators/lib/libherwig.so
>> AGILe.Loader: TRACE  Testing for
>> /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/MCGenerators/lib/libherwigHEAD.so
>> AGILe.Loader: TRACE  Didn't find herwig:HEAD:libherwig
>>
>>
>> (repeated for all other generators).
>>
>> So it seems to only be looking for the cern afs area... Haven't looked
>> too deeply into the code, but wondered if someone had an idea of the
>> problem. With previous versions and installs I've had issues with
>> LCG_TAG not be correctly set, but that does not seem to be the case here.
>
> Agreed -- the LCG platform tag seems to be fine. I'm puzzled, because
> it's working fine for me! Is your AGILE_GEN_PATH variable exported
> properly as opposed to just defined?
>
> If it is defined as far as the AGILe process is concerned, then it
> shouldn't try using that Genser fallback at all, cf. the code for the
> search path definition in src/Tools/AGILePaths.cc:
>
>    const vector<string>  getGenPaths() {
>      vector<string>  dirs;
>      char* env = 0;
>      env = getenv("AGILE_GEN_PATH");
>      if (env) {
>        // Use the AGILe generator path variable if set...
>        dirs += split(env);
>      } else {
>        // ... fallback to Genser AFS path
>
> Andy
>
> PS. Looking into this I also noticed that I wasn't excluding the "." and
> ".." directory entries from the generator version search. So from
> today's svn head version onwards there won't be so much cruft in the
> trace output about looking for generator versions called e.g. "...3"!
>