Issues with installing FairSoft on Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS

[hasandarwish]

Dear experts,

Please bear with me as I am a complete beginner.

I am having an issue installing FairSoft (Legacy) on Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS. I think that I followed the instructions step by step and I installed the required packages. But I am getting an error in the step cmake --build [-j]

The output in the terminal is in the file: log_fairsoft_cmake_build.log

The mentioned file name with "see also" is here: root-build.log

I tried the solution suggested in https://github.com/FairRootGroup/FairSoft/issues/538 But I got the same errors as well as an additional error shown here: error_after_solution.txt

Thank you for your help!

[fuhlig1]

Hi Hasan,

which version of FairSoft do you try to install? Did you use the master branch or one of the tagged versions?

Ciao

Florian

[hasandarwish]

Hi,

I tried: jan24, jan24_patches and nov22p1.

The three of them didn't work.

I am not sure how to try the master branch.

[fuhlig1]

Did you install all the necessary dependencies? You can find scripts for various systems in the legacy folder, in your case the script is setup-ubuntu.sh.

[hasandarwish]

Yes I did run this script and it worked properly.

[fuhlig1]

Thanks for confirmation. I will try to try an installation on Ubuntu 20.04 myself to see if I can reproduce the problem.

[fuhlig1]

Sorry but I didn't find the time to do the test yet.

[hasandarwish]

Dear Florian,

Did you finally have time to check for this?

[fuhlig1]

Hi @hasandarwish,

finally I managed to test the compilation myself. For me the compilation of FairSoft nov22p1 worked without any problems. I started with a minimal ubuntu system (20.04.6 LTS (Focal Fossa)), cloned the FairSoft repository and did a checkout of the version nov22p1. I used the script legacy/setup-ubuntu.sh from the FairSoft source to install all dependencies. Since the CMake version of the system is to old I installed a proper version using the bootstrap-cmake.sh script. Finally I generated the CMake configuration and build Fairsoft

cmake -S . -B build -DCMAKE_CXX_STANDARD=17 
cmake --build build -j96

Is it possible that you remove all FairSoft installation from your machine and to start from scratch following the few steps I described in the issue?

Ciao

Florian

[hasandarwish]

Hi Florian,

I tried exactly what you suggested and I got the following errors shown in the attached file: fairsoft_errors.txt

Regards,

Hasan

[fuhlig1]

Hi @hasandarwish,

Please try with the nov22_patches branch which fixes the changed hepmc download URL. It is fixed in the branch but no new released was tagged yet. I fixed it manually in my version and forgot to mention it in the issue.

Ciao

Florian

[dennisklein]

but no new released was tagged yet.

Just landed: https://github.com/FairRootGroup/FairSoft/releases/tag/nov22p2

[hasandarwish]

Hi Florian,

nov22_patches gave the same error, but I tried jan24_patches and it worked! I will continue with the FairRoot installation and see how it goes.

Thanks a lot!

Hasan

[hasandarwish]

Hi again,

Please excuse me and bear with me. I am trying now to install FairRoot. While doing: cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="/home/hdarwish/Softwares/FairRoot/install" .. I am getting the following on the terminal:

hdarwish@l5420:~/Softwares/FairRoot/build$ cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="/home/hdarwish/Softwares/FairRoot/install" ..
-- The C compiler identification is GNU 9.4.0
-- The CXX compiler identification is GNU 9.4.0
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc - skipped
-- Detecting C compile features
-- Detecting C compile features - done
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ - skipped
-- Detecting CXX compile features
-- Detecting CXX compile features - done
--- Found a Linux system
--- Found GNU compiler collection
-- Looking for IWYU... - Not found
CMake Error at /opt/cmake-3.29.3-linux-x86_64/share/cmake-3.29/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:230 (message):
  Could NOT find Boost (missing: Boost_INCLUDE_DIR filesystem serialization
  program_options container date_time regex) (Required is at least version
  "1.67")
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  /opt/cmake-3.29.3-linux-x86_64/share/cmake-3.29/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:600 (_FPHSA_FAILURE_MESSAGE)
  /opt/cmake-3.29.3-linux-x86_64/share/cmake-3.29/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:2393 (find_package_handle_standard_args)
  /usr/local/share/faircmakemodules/modules/FairFindPackage2.cmake:214 (find_package)
  CMakeLists.txt:233 (find_package2)

-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!

Can you please help me?

Hasan

[fuhlig1]

Did the FairSoft compilation finish without errors?

Did you do

export SIMPATH=\<your FairSoft installation>

[hasandarwish]

Yes, FairSoft compiled successfully without errors, as I said in the second previous message (with jan24_patches).

But FairRoot gave the errors shown in the previous message.

[hasandarwish]

Hi Florian,

Can you please give me some time and have a look on what I am getting? I successfully installed FairSoft and I am trying now to install FairRoot. While doing: cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="$SIMPATH" -DBoost_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/include/ ..

I am getting the following on the terminal: `hdarwish@l5420:~/Softwares/FairRoot/build$ cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="$SIMPATH" -DBoost_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/include/ .. -- The C compiler identification is GNU 9.4.0 -- The CXX compiler identification is GNU 9.4.0 -- Detecting C compiler ABI info -- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done -- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc - skipped -- Detecting C compile features -- Detecting C compile features - done -- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info -- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done -- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ - skipped -- Detecting CXX compile features -- Detecting CXX compile features - done --- Found a Linux system --- Found GNU compiler collection -- Check if compiler accepts -pthread -- Check if compiler accepts -pthread - yes -- Found Threads: TRUE CMake Error at /opt/cmake-3.29.3-linux-x86_64/share/cmake-3.29/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:230 (message): Could NOT find Boost (missing: filesystem serialization program_options container date_time regex) (found suitable version "1.71.0", minimum required is "1.67") Call Stack (most recent call first): /opt/cmake-3.29.3-linux-x86_64/share/cmake-3.29/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:600 (_FPHSA_FAILURE_MESSAGE) /opt/cmake-3.29.3-linux-x86_64/share/cmake-3.29/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:2393 (find_package_handle_standard_args) /usr/local/share/faircmakemodules/modules/FairFindPackage2.cmake:214 (find_package) CMakeLists.txt:236 (find_package2)

-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred! `

Thank you for your time. Best regards,

Hasan