Bug#682004: pythia8-root-interface: Remove hard dependence on root-system and libroot-core-dev, add rootmap file

[Lifeng Sun]

tags 682004 + pending
thanks


Hi,

On 18:04 Wed 07/18/12 Jul     , Pavel Reznicek wrote:
> would it be possible to replace the dependence of this package on
> root-system and libroot-core-dev just by recommendation ? The
> package is pure code only and thus it will also work with other
> (e.g. locally self-compiled) ways of ROOT installations.

okay.

btw: Although Ubuntu is able to build the latest package (5.34.01-1),
it still suffers serious runtime error.

> Also, it might be usefull to include a /usr/lib/libpythia8.rootmap file to
> allow automatic library loading in the interactive ROOT sessions. The content
> of the roomap file should be these two lines:
> 
> Library.Pythia8: /usr/lib/$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH)/libpythia8.so /usr/lib/$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH)/libLHAPDF.so /usr/lib/$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH)/libhepmcinterface.so
> Library.Pythia:  /usr/lib/$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH)/libpythia8.so /usr/lib/$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH)/libLHAPDF.so /usr/lib/$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH)/libhepmcinterface.so
> 
> (DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH replaced by x86_64-linux-gnu etc.).

I think you will find the root-plugin-montecarlo-pythia8 package
useful :-)

The pythia8-root-interface package provides interfaces to call ROOT
functions in Pythia8 code, not to call Pythia8 functions in ROOT
interactive sessions -- root-plugin-montecarlo-pythia8 package does
that work, but the package is not available on Ubuntu right now.


Regards,
Lifeng

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