The user should always do make depend before make We've fixed the courtesy Make-depend to use $(ROOTSYS) references, but still users should just do "make depend". The fact the rmkdepend was missing from from the RH6.0 distribution was a mistake and has been fixed. Cheers, Fons Matthew D. Langston wrote: > > `Make-depend' is still broken in ROOT 2.22.10. This file has contained > illegal characters for the last few releases of ROOT, making it > impossible to compile ROOT from source. Also, the "depend" target in > `Make-macros' is broken as well (at least for RedHat Linux 6.0 Intel > systems), since the program it calls to generate dependencies is > non-existent in the binary distribution. > > The following perl snippet will fix this: > > $ cd $ROOTSYS/src > $ perl -i.orig -p -e 's{(?:/|\$ROOTSYS)[^\s]+}{};s{^[^:]+:\s*$}{}' Make-depend > > If by some chance you don't have Perl on your system, but you have > "sed", then the Perl command can be replaced with the following two > lines: > > $ cd $ROOTSYS/src > $ mv Make-depend Make-depend.orig > $ sed -e 's/\$ROOTSYS//' -e 's/\/[^ ][^ ]*//' -e '/^[^:][^:]*:[ ]$/d' Make-depend.orig > Make-depend > > NOTE: In the sed command above, the last two characters within the 1st, > 2nd and 5th square brackets are a SPACE followed by a TAB. Some > broken MTUs translate TAB incorrectly, so you may need to add the > TAB characters back in by hand. > > The ROOT Makefiles should probably not have Makefile header dependencies > on external packages. This will only get in the way of the general ROOT > user. Am I missing something as to why they continue to be distributed? > Perhaps there are users who want or need this feature for some reason > unknown to me. Is this the case? > > The `Make-depend' file is a valuable courtesy to the general ROOT user, > and having it work consistently on multiple platforms can only be > guaranteed if the Makefile header dependencies are limited to those > files which the ROOT packager has direct control over, namely the ROOT > package itself. > > -- > Matthew D. Langston > SLD, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center > langston@SLAC.Stanford.EDU -- Org: CERN, European Laboratory for Particle Physics. Mail: 1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland E-Mail: Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch Phone: +41 22 7679248 WWW: http://root.cern.ch/~rdm/ Fax: +41 22 7677910
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