Re: modification of g4libs.C. granular/global?

Dear Ivana,

From: Ivana Hrivnacova <Ivana.Hrivnacova_at_cern.ch> Subject: Re: [VMC] modification of g4libs.C. granular/global? Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 10:11:58 +0100

> geant4_vmc version 2.5 was released with
> Geant4 9.1.p02, that's why you have problems
> to load libraries for Geant4 9.2.

Yes, I thought so.

> The new version (2.6) is going to be released
> during this week (it was waiting for the
> Root tag v5.23/02, in order to be synchronized
> with both Geant4 and Root releases).

I'm looking forward to it.

> There was a proposal made by Dmitry Naumov
> to improve the loading Geant4 libraries,
> which I still have to look at.

Another good news...

> But as Geant4
> releases are not so frequent and the list of
> libraries does not change very much from one
> relase to another, the keeping the list up to
> date is not such a difficult task.

I agree. But you may be too busy to update... ;-)

> To use g4libs.C with Geant4 global libraries,
> it should be sufficient just to change comments
> in g4libs.C:
> void g4libs() functions
> {
> /// Macro function for loading Geant4 granular libraries.
> /// Change the comment if global libraries are used.
>
> //g4libs_granular();
> g4libs_global();
> ...
> }
> however this option is not regularly tested,
> so let me know, if you get problems.

I will. But what I said was that g4root can only be configured with granular geant4 libraries... Though I know nothing about autotools, I guess it's not so difficult to detect global libraries as well as glanular ones...

> The fact that we expect user to build Geant4
> granular libraries is said explicitly on the VMC
> Web page:
> http://root.cern.ch/drupal/content/how-use-virtual-monte-carlo
> --> Instalation
> --> Install geant4_vmc:
> --> To install Geant4 ...

Really? I could'nt find...

Yours,
Kazuyoshi at home

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Kazuyoshi Furutaka
furutaka_at_jb3.so-net.ne.jp