Re: [ROOT] Redhat 7.1 and Postscript

From: Volodia (nikulin@mail.cern.ch)
Date: Wed Jul 18 2001 - 19:04:29 MEST


Hi Fons,

It is a good idea to provide binaries for _standard_ RH7.1 compiler.
Could you also provide a complete library kit, i.e. including
libEGPythia6, libEGVenus etc, please.

Cheers, Volodia 


On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Fons Rademakers wrote:

> Hi Chris,
> 
>   the problem turns out to be that the iostream from 2.95.3 does not 
> interoperate with the iostream from 2.96 (since they both have the same
> name the one from 2.96 is used, also for code compiled with 2.95).
> 
> I'll also provide binaries for 2.96 on RH7.1.
> 
> Cheers, Fons.
> 
> 
> "Christopher A. Stevens" wrote:
> > 
> > I compiled it with the stock RH7.1 compiler without any patches
> > applied, yet.
> > gcc -v gives 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-81)
> > I notice that a gcc-2.96-85 patch is now available that I plan to install.
> > 
> > Hope this helps,
> > --
> > Chris Stevens
> > 
> > On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Fons Rademakers wrote:
> > 
> > > HiChris,
> > >
> > >   which compiler are you using on RH7.1? The binary was compiled with 2.95.3.
> > > There
> > > might be a problem running it with the default gcc 2.96 environment.
> > >
> > > Cheers, Fons.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > "Christopher A. Stevens" wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Sorry in advance if this has already been reported, but I don't monitor the roottalk list. I did look through the online digests and saw mention of some printing problems in the digest but no real details/solutions, so I'll add my experience.
> > > >
> > > > I am running RedHat 7.1 on x86 hardware.  I downloaded the root_v3.01.06.Linux.2.4.4-rh7.1.tar.gz binary file.  I installed it fine, and started it fine.  Following the Users Guide, I did
> > > > TF1 f1("func1", "sin(x)/x", 0, 10)
> > > > f1.Draw()
> > > >
> > > > Ok, so far.  I tried to print this canvas out by selecting Print from the canvas menu, but get a segmentation violation or something along those lines, on the terminal window.  In the terminal window, I type c1.Print("c1.ps") and get the same result.  Trying to either print or create a postscript file does not work.
> > > >
> > > > So I downloaded the source and compiled it myself.  Postscript creation and printing now works just fine.
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Chris Stevens
> > >
> > >
> 
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