Dear RootTalk,
I'm trying to compile latest ROOT on my new thinkpad laptop which is
running Debian 2.4 kernal (I think). The make stops when compiling
cint/src/macro.c, lines 520 and 898 ("invalid operands to binary ==").
Apparently, the typedef "fpos_t" is nonscalar (i.e., it is a structure)
in debian release. I compared to a redhat release, in which "fpos_t" is
a scalar (long). The configure script apparently doesn't check for this.
I should point out that I recently got this laptop, and I'm not married
to Debian so I'm willing to switch to RedHat. I've noticed similar
problems building non-ROOT software as well, and haven't yet been
successful installing StarOffice either.
I'm not sure what to do now. I DON'T WANT TO START A "My OS is better
than your OS" series of discussions, but I'm wondering how many other
Debian "features" I'll find if I work around this problem and go on to
try and finish building ROOT. Any experience out there building ROOT on
Debian?
- Mike Beddo
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