Re: compling and linking of symlinked macro

Hi Phillippe,

sorry for the noise, you are right, it works1 (I got confused betweens accounts and
an old ROOT head that was not updated.)

Constantin

Philippe Canal wrote:
> Hi Constantin,
>
> I fail to reproduce your problem. In the test I made,
> it still seems to work as you expect. Could you provide
> me with a tar file reproducing your issue? (and the
> ROOT version number and OS flavor).
>
> Thanks,
> Philippe.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-roottalk_at_pcroot.cern.ch [mailto:owner-roottalk_at_pcroot.cern.ch]
> On Behalf Of Constantin Loizides
> Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 11:03 PM
> To: ROOT TALK
> Subject: [ROOT] compling and linking of symlinked macro
>
> Hi,
>
> has there been a change in the way, macros are compiled?
>
> One of my very much preferred ways has been to write a
> macro that contains several functions. In order
> to easily access those functions from the cmd line I
> would symlink the file name with the function name,
> ln -s filename.C functionname.C
>
> Then I could execute ala
> root.exe -b -q functionname.C+\(arg1,arg2,arg3\)
>
> It seems to me that now gSystem is clever(?) enough to
> resolve the symlink and produce "filename_C.so". However,
> ROOT then is not clever(?) enough to understand that
> it should first link filename_C.so and then look for the
> "functionname" function in that lib.
>
> The only way I could get my previous way of working to
> work is to really copy filename.C to functionname.C
> This is however really impractical.
>
> Any ideas what I can do?
>
> Thanks,
> Constantin
>

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