Re: [ROOT] Installing from cvs

From: Christian Holm Christensen (cholm@hehi03.nbi.dk)
Date: Thu Jul 12 2001 - 11:50:29 MEST


Hi Fons, Mark, et al, 

On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 00:10:07 +0200
Fons Rademakers <Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch> wrote
concerning ": Re: [ROOT] Installing from cvs":
> Hi Mark,
> 

>   if the install directory is the same as $ROOTSYS then don't
> specify the --prefix and --etcdir arguments to ./configure (by doing
> --prefix=$ROOTSYS you set the install dir equal to $ROOTSYS). I will
> add the necessary protections to ./configure.

You could of course turn this around and say: If ROOTSYS points to the
installation directory, do not export ROOTSYS.  

Please read the file README/INSTALL carefully.  

As descibed in that file, there's two ways of installing ROOT.  The
error you get above steems from mixing the two ways. 

Basicaly, if you configure with option --prefix, do not set ROOTSYS,
not even when building.  If you do not specify --prefix, you must set
ROOTSYS.  Don't take this as the final truth, read README/INSTALL
carefully. 

Glad to see that you're adding protection agains this Fons. 

Yours, 

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