[Rivet] Problem with rivet-bootstrap

[Ben Waugh]

That's great. I'm using gcc 4.4 and have this problem. I guess it might 
depend on what you upgraded from...

Cheers
Ben

On 24/10/11 13:35, Andy Buckley wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> Yes, this one just seems to have appeared -- for me it started when I
> upgraded to GCC 4.6. It's fixed in the trunk, and hence will be fixed in
> 1.7.0 when that happens.
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
>
>
> On 24/10/11 12:48, Ben Waugh wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I've just installed Rivet 1.6.0 on my laptop (Fedora 13) using the
>> bootstrap script, but I needed a little hack to get it to work, and I
>> suspect this is something that you build experts could fix more
>> permanently.
>>
>> The bootstrap terminates with this error:
>> make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/waugh/rivet/build/Rivet-1.6.0/bin'
>> CXX rivet_nopy-rivet-nopy.o
>> CXXLD rivet-nopy
>> /usr/bin/ld: rivet_nopy-rivet-nopy.o: undefined reference to symbol
>> 'HepMC::IO_GenEvent::IO_GenEvent(std::basic_istream<char,
>> std::char_traits<char> >&)'
>> /usr/bin/ld: note:
>> 'HepMC::IO_GenEvent::IO_GenEvent(std::basic_istream<char,
>> std::char_traits<char> >&)' is defined in DSO
>> /home/waugh/local/rivet/lib/libHepMC.so.4 so try adding it to the linker
>> command line
>> /home/waugh/local/rivet/lib/libHepMC.so.4: could not read symbols:
>> Invalid operation
>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>> make[1]: *** [rivet-nopy] Error 1
>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/waugh/rivet/build/Rivet-1.6.0/bin'
>> make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>>
>> This seems to be because the linker line does indeed not contain the
>> relevant library. I worked around this by editing
>> /tmp/waugh/rivet/build/Rivet-1.6.0/bin/Makefile, changing this line
>> LIBS =
>> to
>> LIBS = ${HEPMCLDLIBS}
>> then running "make" in this directory and then rerunning the bootstrap
>> script.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Ben
>>
>
>

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