in order to get started with using g4py, I try to follow the instructions given here: https://geant4.web.cern.ch/geant4/UserDocumentation/UsersGuides/ForApplicationDeveloper/html/apas07.html ...but it fails. Seems to be something wrong with "boost"... This is what I do: source /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/geant4/10.0.p03/x86_64-slc6-gcc47-opt/bin/geant4.csh cd /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/geant4/10.0.p03/share/environments/g4py ./configure linux64 --with-g4install-dir=/afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/geant4/10.0.p03/x86_64-slc6-gcc47-opt/ Checking for system type ... linuxx8664gcc Checking for prefix ... /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/geant4/10.0.p03/share/environments/g4py Checking for lib dir ... /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/geant4/10.0.p03/share/environments/g4py/lib Checking for G4 include dir ... /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/geant4/10.0.p03/x86_64-slc6-gcc47-opt//include/Geant4 Checking for G4 lib dir ... /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/geant4/10.0.p03/x86_64-slc6-gcc47-opt//lib64 Checking for G4 libs are shared libraray ... ok Checking for Python include dir (pyconfig.h) ... /usr/include/python2.6 Checking for Python lib dir ... /usr/lib64 Checking for Boost include dir (boost/python.hpp) ... /usr/include Checking for Boost version ... ./configure: line 301: conftest.cc: Read-only file system ./configure: line 312: ./conftest: No such file or directory rm: cannot remove `conftest.cc': No such file or directory rm: cannot remove `conftest': No such file or directory boost version >= 1.32.00 is required. Thanks for helping. Massi ======================================================== Comments so far: Gunter Folger added a comment - 25/Nov/14 3:55 PM Hello Massi, This is a hopefully small documentation bug. Obviously, you cannot write into the Geant4 installation on afs. So please copy g4py to a local directory, and then re-run: cd (some local directory) cp -R /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/geant4/10.0.p03/share/environments/g4py g4py cd g4py and then re-run Massimiliano Ferro-Luzzi added a comment - 25/Nov/14 5:03 PM OK, now goes further down, but problem with xercesc... see below. Where is it ? thanks Massi [massi@lxplus0227 g4py]$ pwd /afs/cern.ch/work/m/massi/g4py [massi@lxplus0227 g4py]$ ./configure linux64 --with-g4install-dir=/afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/geant4/10.0.p03/x86_64-slc6-gcc47-opt/ Checking for system type ... linuxx8664gcc Checking for prefix ... /afs/cern.ch/user/m/massi/work/g4py Checking for lib dir ... /afs/cern.ch/user/m/massi/work/g4py/lib Checking for G4 include dir ... /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/geant4/10.0.p03/x86_64-slc6-gcc47-opt//include/Geant4 Checking for G4 lib dir ... /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/geant4/10.0.p03/x86_64-slc6-gcc47-opt//lib64 Checking for G4 libs are shared libraray ... ok Checking for Python include dir (pyconfig.h) ... /usr/include/python2.6 Checking for Python lib dir ... /usr/lib64 Checking for Boost include dir (boost/python.hpp) ... /usr/include Checking for Boost version ... ok Checking for Boost lib dir ... /usr/lib64 Checking for Boost Python lib name ... libboost_python.so Checking for OpenGL support ...yes Checking for GL2PS support ...yes Checking for GDML support ...yes Checking for Xerces-C include dir ...no /usr/include/xercesc does not exist. Try --with-xercesc-incdir option. Gunter Folger added a comment - 25/Nov/14 6:56 PM Please try the following, this got me past th econfigure step, but fails in compilation: ./configure linux64 --with-g4install-dir=/afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/geant4/10.0.p03/x86_64-slc6-gcc47-opt/ --with-xercesc-incdir=/afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/XercesC/3.1.1p2/x86_64-slc6-gcc47-opt/include --with-xercesc-libdir=/afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/XercesC/3.1.1p2/x86_64-slc6-gcc47-opt/lib/ Massimiliano Ferro-Luzzi added a comment - 26/Nov/14 8:10 AM Dear Gunter yes, indeed, I tried and I passed the configure. Then, both make and make install generate about 10'000 error messages. (so many that I decided not to post them here...). Is g4py still supposed to work after that ? Massi
