Comment 5 for bug 1753514

Now it works! Thanks!

On 03/09/2018 02:51 PM, Valentin Hirschi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> So I didn't know the syncing with our servers was so fast, and I thought I
> had pushed which what would be just the test branch.
> Anyway, I pushed the simply fix (sorry for this silly mistake) and it
> should work now.
> The fix is simply:
>
>
> all_lib.append(glob.glob(pjoin(_HepTools[tool]['install_path'],libdir,'*')))
> ->
>
> all_lib.extend(glob.glob(pjoin(_HepTools[tool]['install_path'],libdir,'*')))
>
>
> You could test this right away by copying your directory 'HepToolsInstallers'
> with the fix above in HEPToolsInstaller.py, one directory above your
> madgraph installation.
> And then try installing again with the additional option '--local'.
>
> Sorry for this,
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 2:06 PM, Leif Gellersen <email address hidden>
> wrote:
>
>> Since I solved it by hand in the meantime, I do a fresh install and try
>> the installation of ninja with it. Now I get an AttributeError: 'list'
>> object has no attribute 'endswith' in line 901 of the
>> HEPToolInstaller.py: all_lib = [lib for lib in all_lib if not
>> any(lib.endswith(ext) for ext in ['.so','.la','.dylib'])].
>>
>> In case of hepmc, I now get an AttributeError: 'list' object has no
>> attribute 'rfind' in the HEPToolInstaller.py on line 915: if
>> os.path.islink(pjoin(_prefix,'lib',os.path.basename(path))):
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Leif
>>
>>
>> On 03/09/2018 01:23 PM, Valentin Hirschi 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.
>>>
>> --
>> You received this bug notification because you are a bug assignee.
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1753514
>>
>> 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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