[Rivet] swig version not compatible for rivet installation

[Ulla Blumenschein]

Hello Andy,

Many thanks for the feedback.
I will then be able to continue with the prebuild installations, which are
working well.

Cheers, Ulla

On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 8:29 PM, Andy Buckley <andy.buckley at cern.ch> wrote:

> Sure: you don't need to rebuild the Rivet library to use new analyses.
> You use the rivet-buildplugin script to compile the analysis code into a
> plugin library and then use the RIVET_ANALYSIS_PATH environment variable
> to get Rivet to find it at runtime. There's information on the Rivet web
> pages and in the tutorials at http://rivet.hepforge.org
>
> Hope that helps,
> Andy
>
>
> On 30/06/13 18:17, Ulla Blumenschein wrote:
> > Hello Andy,
> >
> > Many thanks for the feedback!
> > We would like to add two new analyses. Is it possible to test them with
> > the prebuild installation?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Ulla
> >
> > On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Andy Buckley <andy.buckley at cern.ch
> > <mailto:andy.buckley at cern.ch>> wrote:
> >
> >     On 30/06/13 11:11, Ulla Blumenschein wrote:
> >     > Dear all,
> >     >
> >     > I  am
> >     > using
> >     /afs/
> cern.ch/atlas/software/releases/17.2.8/gcc-alt-436/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/bin/gcc
> >     <
> http://cern.ch/atlas/software/releases/17.2.8/gcc-alt-436/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/bin/gcc
> >
> >     >
> >     <
> http://cern.ch/atlas/software/releases/17.2.8/gcc-alt-436/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/bin/gcc
> >
> >     > and  my PATH
> >     > contains
> >     /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/swig/1.3.40/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt
> >     <http://cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/swig/1.3.40/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt>
> >     > <http://cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/swig/1.3.40/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt>
> at
> >     > the beginning
> >     >
> >     > When I install Rivet I get the message:
> >     > checking if
> >     >
> >     /afs/
> cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/swig/1.3.40/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/bin/swig
> >     <
> http://cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/swig/1.3.40/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/bin/swig>
> >     >
> >     <
> http://cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/swig/1.3.40/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/bin/swig>
> >     > is compatible with the g++ compiler... no
> >     > configure: error: Can't build Python extension since
> >     >
> >     /afs/
> cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/swig/1.3.40/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/bin/swig
> >     <
> http://cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/swig/1.3.40/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/bin/swig>
> >     >
> >     <
> http://cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/swig/1.3.40/x86_64-slc5-gcc43-opt/bin/swig>
> >     > is not compatible with g++. Get a newer SWIG version!
> >
> >     Hi Ulla,
> >
> >     The Rivet 1.x build system tries to get SWIG to make a Python
> interface
> >     for a very simple C++ test program, then reports whether or not it
> was
> >     successful. For some reason it is not being successful with your
> setup,
> >     but this may be an issue with your environment's compiler setup
> rather
> >     than SWIG specifically. Can you look in config.log to find the place
> >     where the failure occurs, and post that bit so we have a bit more
> >     information?
> >
> >     Since you obviously have AFS access, is there a reason not to use the
> >     pre-built Rivet installations from
> >     /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/MCGenerators_lcgcmt*
> >     <http://cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/MCGenerators_lcgcmt*>?
> >
> >     Andy
> >
> >     --
> >     Dr Andy Buckley, Royal Society University Research Fellow
> >     Particle Physics Expt Group, University of Edinburgh / PH Dept, CERN
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
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> >     Ulla Blumenschein
> >     II Physik, Uni Goettingen
> >     Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1, D01.110
> >     phone: 0049-551-397645
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>
>
> --
> Dr Andy Buckley, Royal Society University Research Fellow
> Particle Physics Expt Group, University of Edinburgh / PH Dept, CERN
>



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