Re: [ROOT] Re: Compiling root on MacOS X 10.2 (jaguar)

From: Fons Rademakers (Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch)
Date: Thu Sep 26 2002 - 09:46:23 MEST


Hi George,

  support for both 10.1 and 10.2 is pretty trivial. I only need to know
how I can differentiate between the two versions in the makefile. Is
there a command like uname that provides an OS version number?

Cheers, Fons.



On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 00:25, George Irwin wrote:
> Hi Rene,
> 
> > This is a call for comments to the macosx community.
> >
> > Can we assume that all macosx users will convert to 10.2?
> > Who wants support for 10.1? for how long?
> > We have 3 options:
> >   A- move to 10.2 only with the changes now in CVS by Mayly Sanchez
> >   B- ignore 10.2 and revert to the Makefile version of yesterday
> >   C- support two macosx versions
> >
> > Please indicate your preferences. In the absence of reactions we will
> > choose solution A.
> 
> Our users probably won't switch until pushed.  With A, those who use ROOT
> would have to freeze ROOT at its current version until they switch.  I
> estimate ~6 months for this.  They have to make sure that all their other
> software will work on 3.2 before they switch.  So I favor C for now.
> 
> Mayley reports that she sees the same benchmarks.C crash (due to recursion
> stack limit overflow) on 3.2 that I see on 3.1.  I haven't pursued a
> solution for this (as I promised) yet.
> 
> George
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