[Rivet] AGILe generators.

[Andy Buckley]

Thanks for the feedback -- I've updated the wiki and the trunk version 
of the PDF manual.

Andy


On 13/07/11 14:34, Pablo Bueno-Gomez wrote:
> Hello Andy,
>
> We finally managed to solve the problem. It seems that the instructions here http://projects.hepforge.org/rivet/trac/wiki/GettingStarted do work for our Scientific Linux system, whilst those from the rivet manual projects.hepforge.org/rivet/rivet-manual.pdf do not. Thanks you very much, and sorry for bothering you.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Pablo.
>
> ________________________________________
> De: Andy Buckley [andy.buckley at ed.ac.uk]
> Enviado el: martes, 12 de julio de 2011 23:26
> Para: Pablo Bueno-Gomez
> CC: rivet at projects.hepforge.org; Eva Sicking
> Asunto: Re: [Rivet] AGILe generators.
>
> On 12/07/11 17:08, Pablo Bueno-Gomez wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> We have just installed Rivet and AGILe (Scientific Linux CERN 5) but it
>> seems that AGILe can't find any generator. We have run the script of
>> Genser generators following the steps:
>> http://projects.hepforge.org/rivet/trac/wiki/GenserMirror,and set
>> AGILE_GEN_PATH to where the generators are. When we use: agile-runmc
>> --list-gens, no generators appear (although everything seems to be
>> properly installed). Any suggestions would be welcome. Thank you very much.
>
> Hi Pablo,
>
> Thanks for the report and sorry that it didn't go smoothly. The Genser
> generator installation is still an awkward point! I've not run Genser's
> own generator script for a long time, so am not an expert in how that
> behaves these days: can you post a few example paths to generator
> libraries, e.g. libpythia.so, relative to the main $AGILE_GEN_PATH location?
>
> For debugging the generator loading, if you add the flag -lTRACE to the
> agile-runmc command line, you will get a *lot* of output which reports
> all the library loading locations being attempted. Hopefully from that
> you will be able to work out what is going wrong... a common issue is a
> mismatch in LCG platform tag. If you do find out what didn't work, and
> the problem seems to be on the AGILe side, please let us know and we'll
> see what we can do to fix it.
>
> Best wishes,
> Andy
>
> --
> Dr Andy Buckley
> SUPA Advanced Research Fellow
> Particle Physics Experiment Group, University of Edinburgh
>
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>


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Dr Andy Buckley
SUPA Advanced Research Fellow
Particle Physics Experiment Group, University of Edinburgh

The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
Scotland, with registration number SC005336.