Can't install on Mac OSX 10.6.4

[Generic User (don't modify these fields)]

I am unable to install Sherpa on my Mac running Mac OSX 10.6.4. It has the standard gfortran and g++ compiler and linker tools that come with the system and I have installed many other physics packages previously with no problem.

I use the following configure string (executed from a build directory parallel to the directory containing the configure file).

../SHERPA-MC-1.2.2/configure --prefix=/Users/avery/analysis/sherpa/install_1.2.2

But I get the error message towards the end of the "make" step.

Undefined symbols:
  "_MAIN__", referenced from:
      flat_namespace undefines in libSherpaMain.dylib
ld: symbol(s) not found
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[3]: *** [Sherpa] Error 1
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2

I thought that perhaps the installation was not using 64 bit consistently, so I tried

../SHERPA-MC-1.2.2/configure --prefix=/Users/avery/analysis/sherpa/install_1.2.2 --enable-static CXXFLAGS=-m64 CFLAGS=-m64 FCFLAGS=-m64 FFLAGS=-m64

But the error condition is identical. I've had no problem installing Sherpa on a 64-bit AMD system running SL5 at work. Any help would be appreciated. I could not attach the log file created during the make step because the attachment max is 256K.

[Frank Siegert]

Dear user,

I have increased the maximum allowed attachment size to 2560K. If you gzip the log file it should be smaller than that, I hope? If so, it would be useful if you could attach it now.

Cheers, Frank

PS: You might want to add your email address to CC such that you get notified about updates on this ticket.

[Generic User (don't modify these fields)]

Log file from the make step while installing Sherpa

[Generic User (don't modify these fields)]

My new comment was lost when I did the attachment, though the attachment seems to have worked. Note that the make process fails at the "Making all in Run" step after successfully executing a large number of compiles.

Thanks, Paul Avery ​avery@phys.ufl.edu

[Frank Siegert]

Hi Paul,

sorry for the delay, I've been trying to reproduce this on the only MacOS machine which I have access to, but something seems to be wrong with the system libraries there, unrelated to this issue.

I don't have any experience with Mac's myself, so I'm afraid I won't be of much help. In acinclude.m4 we have a special line for MacOS:

-dynamic -flat_namespace

Maybe it helps to play with that? After changing this it's necessary to run

autoreconf -fi

before configure and make though. Don't know whether this is available on your Mac?

I'll let you know if I come up with any better ideas.

In any case, thanks for letting us know about the issue.

Cheers,

Frank

[hoeth]

Could you please try this tarball: ​http://users.hepforge.org/~hoeth/SHERPA-MC-1.2.2a.tar.bz2 and report if it fixes the problem?

Thanks,

Hendrik

[hoeth]

Can't reproduce and user didn't reply anymore, so I close this.

[Stefan Hoeche]

Milestone rel-1.2.3 deleted