Hi Anselm,

On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 5:30 AM Loges, Anselm G <anselm.loges@helsinki.fi> wrote:

Hi Matt,

thanks for the quick reply! Your instructions worked, Feff8L is up and running.

Great!

I have taken the liberty to write down how to install and run Feff8L from the GitHub page that ignores the larch testing (see attachment). This may be helpful for others who just need Feff8L. Feel free to add this file in its present or different form, in full or part to the GitHub page or distribute it any way you see fit (it is essentially just what you told me but in Markdown form, anyway). I doubt I can be of much use in coding for this project but I'll gladly document my experiences with installations and such like if that helps at all.

OK, thanks very much!

What went wrong on the first try: I tried to follow the instructions in the README.md file on https://github.com/xraypy/feff85exafs although I should be old enough not to blindly follow instructions on the internet without first figuring out exactly what is going to happen ;) The instructions say:

      feff8l> make
      feff8l> LD_LIBRARY_PATH='wrappers/python:src/GENFMT' && nosetests --verbosity=3
      feff8l> sudo make install

The error I was speaking of occurred in the testing. A look into what "nosetests" does and looking into the scripts in the to paths it is run on I realized that some Python scripts there import larch. So my problem was not as I thought related to the actual Feff8L installation, it's just that the testing does more than test Feff8L. The complete error message (for the record mostly) was:

Ah, right. Apparently, I didn't look at the installation instructions either ;). But, I agree the instructions should be more clearly explain that Larch is used for testing.

I'll incorporate your changes.

Thanks,

--Matt