2002 CERNLIB Release

A bug in Hplot and PAW in Cernlib 2002 (pro) affecting all systems but relatively few users was corrected on 13 November 2002. The fix is in HPLAER (asymmetric errors drawing), HPLOT version 5.24/02 in graflib and the Paw executables. Due to some changes in parameters passing to this routine, the errors along the Y axis were symmetric.

An update of the CERN Program Library 2002 version was made for the current supported platforms and compilers on 23 September 2002. This is to get round an incompatibility in the Linux Redhat 6.x gcc 2.91 and gcc 2.95 compiler sets which could give unsatisfied externals c_div and z_div when compiling complex divisions in Comis functions.

Stdhep V5_01 has been copied from FNAL replacing v4_07 on 22 October 2002 on PC Linux RH7.2 and RH6.1, SUN Solaris 7 and Tru64 Unix 4.0F. For details refer to 2002/include/stdhep/README and http://www-pat.fnal.gov/stdhep.html.

Major changes

• The shift(rfio) package has been separated from packlib and requires libshift.so or its static equivalent libshift.a, mainly to avoid Cernlib getting behind developments in Castor. At CERN, the shift libraries are usually installed in /usr/local/lib and it is sufficient to add "-lshift" after the Cernlib libraries in the link command. On Solaris only, an additional system library is required by the shift software and "-lshift -lrt" must be added after the Cernlib libraries. Failing to include the shift library will typically produces errors like

     ld:
     Error: Undefined:
     serrno
     rfio_errno
  

  For the convenience of external Linux sites, versions of packlib and kernlib with the default system i/o routines are provided in the compressed tar files. The default configuration files are also for the non-shift version as this seems more appropriate and simpler for users building their own versions.

• Geant321 0.14 has some fixes and larger arrays.
• Paw, Hbook, Hplot and Higz: many minor fixes.
• Monte Carlo libraries:
  • There are new versions of the Monte Carlo libraries isajet758, pythia6205, ariadne412, lepto651 and herwig64.

For details of the release refer to

• List of changed routines since the 2001 release
• PAW Release notes
• List of changes to PAW
• The platform specific README files in the Downloads