[ROOT] building ROOT 2.25 on RedHat 6.2

From: Stefano Bettelli (bettelli@tn.infn.it)
Date: Sat Jul 01 2000 - 17:11:53 MEST


Hi rooters,
        I compiled the 2.25 release two days ago and I am
        now posting some comments on it; first of all I am
        glad to see that there is no more need of precompiled
        libraries and utilities, just the raw sources.

        1) I usually include support for TrueType fonts and
           OpenGL graphics in my buildings (by the way, this
           is the first time TTfonts seem to work for me).
           I had to change the makefile
                $ROOTSYS/config/Makefile.linuxegcs
           in the last lines:

        GLLIBEXTRA = $(OPENGLLIBDIR)/libGLU.a $(OPENGLLIBDIR)/libGL.a

           into libGLU.so and libGL.so; at least on my machine
           the Mesa RPM package "Mesa-3.2-2" only includes the
           dynamic libraries.

        2) I had to specify a lot of options on the command
           line during the configuration stage:

        [10:59:45 /usr/local/Root]$ ./configure linuxegcs 
                --prefix=/usr/local/Root
                --libdir=/usr/local/Root/lib
                --incdir=/usr/local/Root/include
                --datadir=/usr/local/Root
                --etcdir=/usr/local/Root/etc
                --macrodir=/usr/local/Root/macros
                --cintdir=/usr/local/Root/cint
                --iconpath=/usr/local/Root/icons
                --docdir=/usr/local/Root/doc
                --with-ttf-incdir=/usr/local/TTfonts/include
                --with-ttf-fontdir=/usr/local/TTfonts/fonts
                --with-opengl-incdir=/usr/X11R6/include
                --with-opengl-libdir=/usr/X11R6/lib

            most of these lines should be the default once the prefix
            dir is set, but this turned out not to be true. E.g. all
            libraries where dropped in $ROOTSYS/lib but the ROOT exe
            tried to load them from $ROOTSYS/lib/root when --libdir
            was not explicitely specified.

        3) The ROOT exe complained about a missing root.mimes file;
           I had to copy it by hand from the $ROOTSYS/icons directory
           to the $ROOTSYS/etc one.

        I hope this remarks will be useful in fixing the release
        (otherwise let me know if I missed something, expecially
        about the 2-nd complain).
        Thank you,
                                                Stefano Bettelli

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