sPHENIX discussion of software

[pinkenburg <pinkenburg AT bnl.gov>]

Hi folks,

I made good progress on getting us to Alma9 natively but there are some 
"bad" news.
root 6.32 does not have a pythia6 interface anymore (the TPythia6 class 
was removed) and while we still have the vanilla pythia6 library our 
PHPythia6 doesn't build anymore.
eicsmear which we use to read files from eic event generators does not 
build with root 6.32 and gcc 14, it chokes on its own templates.

In order for the alma9 changes to pass jenkins I have made a PR which 
commented them out in G4_Input.C so our jenkins test macros keep running 
(we do not exercise them but load their libraries) and removed the class 
which reads eic files (ReadEicFiles) from the Makefile.am in 
simulation/g4simulation/g4main.

If you still need to run pythia6 in our current environment, make a 
local copy of G4_Input.C where you run Fun4All and uncomment the pythia6 
parts. If you need to read eic files you need to also build your own 
version of g4main (uncomment the eic source and lib dependency on 
libeicsmear), or just use an ana build (<= ana.448).


Chris


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