To install BlackHat follow the following steps:

• install the depedencies

qd:

install qd from the ​QD webpage

wget http://crd.lbl.gov/~dhbailey/mpdist/qd-2.3.13.tar.gz

and install the package. Use the configure options:

--enable-shared

Make sure the shared libraries are installed. When building qd is looking for other compilers than g++ and is seems that depending on which it finds the shared library will not be supported, so I found that one sometimes had to specify it use g++ with the additional argument CXX=g++ (or another compiler which supports shared libraries) in the configure command line.

• BlackHat installation

Download the BlackHat? tar ball, unzip and unpack:

wget http://www.hepforge.org/archive/blackhat/blackhat-0.9.9.tar.gz
tar -xzf blackhat-0.9.9.tar.gz
cd blackhat-0.9.9

Configure,

./configure

the options (in addition to the usual options such as --prefix) are the following:

  --with-QDpath=prefix    try this for a non-standard install prefix of the QD
                          library
  --enable-sherpaplugin    compiles the BH sherpa plugin
  --enable-pythoninterface    compiles the python interface

build and install BlackHat using

make 
make install

see SqliteData for help on how to use the squlite databases instead of the text files.