Hello Chris, In that case, I'll implement a compile switch G__NOMAKEINFO in next release. It will skip MAKEINFO access for most of the cases. Thank you Masaharu Goto >Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 20:13:01 +0300 >From: Christoph Bugel <chris@tti-telecom.com> >To: Masaharu Goto <MXJ02154@nifty.ne.jp> >Cc: roottalk@pcroot.cern.ch, rootdev@pcroot.cern.ch, meirr@tti.co.il >Subject: Re: [ROOT] RE:CINT filename extensions > > >You are correct, CINTSYSDIR was not defined. I do that on purpose, because >I want to use only the required minimum, I don't want to need extra files >at runtime if it is not strictly necessary. The only file I still need at >runtime is bool.h, and I would like to fix that too, if possible. I just >use the core of cint, (libcint), without the stl libraries, include files, >without cint.exe. > >I think that in my situation the error message about not finding MAKEINFO >occurs only when I call G__loadfile() with a filename containing an unknown >extension. I don't use MAKEINFO even at compilation time, (I made a custom >makefile), so I really want to avoid needing it file at runtime. I am >trying to use a 'standalone' libcint, with as little as possible things >needed at runtime. The smaller it is, the easier to understand :) > >So I am now trying to find a solution. I think I will first try to make a >'my_tempnam' function that will guarantee a filename without a dot. >Another option is to use the new G__load_text() API, which makes the >tempname by itself. (What happens if cint generates a temp name with a dot >inside, will it also need MAKEINFO?) > >I this doesn't work I will let you know :) > >Thanks, >Christoph > > >On Wed 2001-08-08, Masaharu Goto wrote: >> Hello Christoph, >> >> The change you requested can be made easily. However, if it is >> a matter of finding MAKEINFO file, you can simply define an >> environment variable CINTSYSDIR. Cint looks for $CINTSYSDIR/MAKEINFO. >> The error obviously looks like this setting is missing. >> >> set CINTSYSDIR=c:\cint for windows >> or >> export CINTSYSDIR=/home/xxx/yyy/cint for UNIX >> >> Thank you >> Masaharu Goto >> >> >> >> >Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 14:17:13 +0300 >> >From: Christoph Bugel <chris@tti-telecom.com> >> >To: roottalk@pcroot.cern.ch, rootdev@pcroot.cern.ch >> >Cc: meirr@tti.co.il >> >Subject: CINT filename extensions >> > >> >Hi! >> > >> >Our system takes a C++ sourcefile, copies it to a tempfile (the >> >filename is generated using tempnam()) and then ask cint to load the >> >files with G__loadfile(). >> > >> >Usually this works fine, but once in a while cint will say "Error: >> >cannot open /MAKEINFO". This happens only when the tempfile happens >> >to contain a dot (.)! for example: "/users/chris/tmp/scripAAAI.bpY_". >> >So I think this happened because cint tries to recognize the filename >> >extension. (even thought it is just a random string) >> > >> >I know cint needs to look at the filename extension in order to know >> >if the file is a sourcefile or a precompiled dll. As it is now, I >> >don't need cint to load dlls at runtime. Would it be possible to tell >> >cint (at compilation time) that *all* filenames (no matter what >> >extension) are source files? >> > >> >Thanks! >>
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