[Rivet] Build of latest 2-6-x release branch

[Andy Buckley]

That surprises me. Maybe what I did was too much C++11 for some compilers, and not quite compliant for later, stricter ones? But then it works ok on my GCC 7.3.0...

Andy
Dr Andy Buckley, Lecturer / Royal Society University Research Fellow
Particle Physics Experiment Group, University of Glasgow

On Jul 17 2018, at 8:41 pm, David Yallup <david.yallup at cern.ch> wrote:
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> Hi Andy,
> I'm using what should be a fairly up to date compiler set on my laptop for this for now (although I do need to configure this on our SL6/CentOS7 clusters at some point):
> david at yallup:~$ gcc --version
> gcc (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.10) 5.4.0 20160609
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> Which does surprise me a little if this isn't handling some C++11 structures?
> Cheers,
> David
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> On 17/07/18 20:48, Andy Buckley wrote:
> >
> > Hi David,
> > What platform is this on? I found the same problem on SL7 without a "modern compiler" override of the native environment: looks like the required bit of C++11 is not supported in GCC 4.8.5.
> > Since this enhancement of Particles over the previous "typedef vector<Particle>" is syntactic sugar, and lots of people expect Rivet to build (not 100% unreasonably, despite not being an official HEP platform) on vanilla SL7, I think we probably have to postpone that change for a future version. Maybe reasonable for v3.
> > Andy
> > Dr Andy Buckley, Lecturer / Royal Society University Research Fellow
> > Particle Physics Experiment Group, University of Glasgow
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Jul 17 2018, at 6:40 pm, David Yallup <david.yallup at cern.ch> (mailto:david.yallup at cern.ch) wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi All,
> > > This is probably down to something I'm messing up but I was wondering if
> > > anyone has had any problems building the latest 2-6-x branch recently?
> > >
> > > Specifically when I update to revision 6377 (current tip) I get a series
> > > of errors all pertaining to Rivet::Particles
> > >
> > > In file included from ../../include/Rivet/AnalysisHandler.hh:6:0,
> > > from Run.cc:3:
> > > ../../include/Rivet/Particle.hh: In constructor
> > > ‘Rivet::Particle::Particle(const HepMC::GenParticle&)’:
> > > ../../include/Rivet/Particle.hh:53:32: error: no matching function for
> > > call to ‘Rivet::Particles::Particles()’
> > > _momentum(gp.momentum())
> > >
> > >
> > > This is updating from revision 6250 (also on the 2-6-x branch) where
> > > everything built fine (which makes me think I'm doing something too
> > > stupid!). It looks like my compiler disagrees with the changes from
> > >
> > > https://rivet.hepforge.org/hg/rivet/rev/5b2baf1011f6?revcount=120
> > >
> > > If others have had no trouble with recent builds of rivet I will go back
> > > to the drawing board but thought I would check with others first.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > David
> > >
> > >
> > >
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