Hi Brett, the idea of rootx.cxx (i.e. root) is to set some env vars and also to give users a prompt feedback that something is happeining, via the splash screen. Root.exe might take some time due to the loading of all the shared libs. This was especially valid a few years ago. Cheers, Fons. Brett Viren wrote: > > Philippe Canal writes: > > This is not my experience. To debug this type of problem I usually just > > have to do (note the .exe even on linux). > > gdb root.exe > ^^^^ > > Ahh, thanks, Philippe. When I run gdb on "root.exe" it is able to > catch the SEGV signal. I was running on "root". Somehow the > fork/exec that the "root" program does to start "root.exe", was > fooling gdb/me. > > Looking at rootx.cxx, besides the splash screen and the setting of > some env. vars. there doesn't seem to be much benefit to using "root" > as opposed to "root.exe". Might this be better accomplished with a > simple script, such as good ol' paw? > > -Brett. -- 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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