[Rivet] Small problem with the latest version

[Chris Pollard]

Hi David,

How do you setup python2.7? I wonder if you're also setting up a latex
distribution in parallel.

Chris

On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 3:22 PM, David Yallup <dyallup at cern.ch> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I don't know if this has been reported but something I thought I should
> flag this up. I was helping someone set up the latest rivet install v2.5.1
> on an SL6 machine, where the default python is v2.6.
>
> Everything compiles "correctly", however when attempting to run
> rivet-mkhtml, it errors with the following:
> ERROR: required program 'latex' could not be found. Exiting...
>
> This is something that came in with rivet 2.5.0 I think (I've had earlier
> versions of rivet running on the same architecture), and is solved by using
> python2.7 (I think its something new in make-plots that doesnt play nicely
> with old python versions), but you then need to compile with python 2.7, so
> I'm wondering if compilation of rivet should be stopped if you are using
> python <=v2.6 as we do with the c++11 headers now, or enforce some check on
> whatever feature make-plots is trying to use.
>
> This is a fairly niche problem but I thought it was worth mentioning
>
> Cheers,
> David
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