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Olivier Mattelaer (olivier-mattelaer) wrote : Re: [Bug 1753514] Failing HEPTools installation of some programs

Looks like Valentin push it already in the official version (maybe by mistake)

but it should be enough to do:
 install ninja --keep_source --logging=DEBUG

Cheers,

Olivier

> On 9 Mar 2018, at 13:23, Valentin Hirschi <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> I have pushed what I think will be the fix.
>
> Leif, could you try it by doing the following (you will need the
> revision tool bzr installed):
>
> cd <you_MG_distribution_path>/..
> bzr branch lp:~maddevelopers/mg5amcnlo/HEPToolsInstallers HEPToolsInstallers
> cd <you_MG_distribution_path>
> ./bin/mg5_aMC
> MG5_aMC>install ninja --keep_source --logging=DEBUG --local
>
> And tell me if it goes through now on SUSE Linux.
>
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> Title:
> Failing HEPTools installation of some programs
>
> Status in MadGraph5_aMC@NLO:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> An error occurs when installing some plugins using the HEPTools
> installer. The installation works just fine and is copied to the
> HEPTools folder, but in the final check
> (check_successfull_installation(target) in HEPToolInstaller.py), only
> 'install_path' and 'install_path/lib' are checked for the successful
> installation of the libraries. However, on my system (SUSE Linux),
> some libraries end up in 'install_path/lib64'. The bug is easily fixed
> by moving lib64 to lib then, but it took me some time to figure out
> what went wrong, since the installation log confirms successful
> installation but the install routine aborts anyway. Affected plugins
> are for example hepmc and ninja.
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