Re: [ROOT] root on PPC systems

From: Jiri Masik (masik@pc203b.fzu.cz)
Date: Fri May 03 2002 - 10:49:16 MEST


"Stephen J. Sanders" <ssanders@ku.edu> writes:

> Hi,
> Root in its latest version does not run correctly on the linux PPC 
> platform.  The
> problem seems to be with the  new treatment of booleans:
> 
> Using the binaries built for Suse7.3 on  a YellowDog Linux 2.2 system:
> root [0] Bool_t a = kTRUE;
> root [1] a
> (Bool_t)0
> root [2] kTRUE
> (const Bool_t)0
> root [3] true
> (const bool)1
> root [4] Bool_t a = true
> root [5] a
> (Bool_t)0
> 
> Similar problems occur if I compile from source on the YDL system.
> I tried the simple minded approach of redefining the Bool_t back to the way
> it was in version 3.1 of root (where everything worked fine) but, of 
> course, this
> results in numerous compilation complaints of redefined variables.
> 
> Any suggestions (other than giving up on my Macintosh!)?
> 
> Regards, Steve

Hi Steve,

I cannot reproduce what you describe - I'm running
  *   Version   3.03/04     30 April 2002   *
on Linux/Debian/ppc, compiled from source with gcc-3.0.4, 
configured with linuxdeb2ppc.

What architecture did you use in ./configure? 
cheers,
        Jiri



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