[Rivet] No analyses if libdir is lib64

David Grellscheid david.grellscheid at durham.ac.uk
Tue Apr 23 16:26:13 BST 2013


Thanks, Christian for the detailed analysis, I'll take a look.

  David

On 23/04/13 16:19, Christian Roehr wrote:
> Hi Rivet,
> 
> On our 64-bit openSUSE 12.2 machines Rivet 1.8.3 doesn't work properly.
> 
> The reason is that the default library site in openSUSE is called lib64
> instead of lib. This is recognized by the configure script. (See e.g.
> http://alturl.com/4rbe2 ) 
> 
> So, with "./configure --prefix=/opt/Rivet/1.8.3" the installation folder
> looks like this:
> 
> $ ls /opt/Rivet/1.8.3
> bin include lib64 share
> 
> With this installation, "/opt/Rivet/1.8.3/bin/rivet --list-analyses" yields
> nothing. Now, those two possibilities solve the problem:
> 
> 1) rivet --list-analyses --analysis-path=/opt/Rivet/1.8.3/lib64
> 
> 2) Create a symlink:
> cd /opt/Rivet/1.8.3
> ln -s lib64 lib
> 
> Since "rivet-config --libdir" returns the correct path,
> /opt/Rivet/1.8.3/lib64, I just wondered whether the "lib" path is
> somewhere hardcoded, where it could (should?) be replaced by what
> configure finds (and stores in the variable libdir).
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Christian
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