Re: [ROOT] AIX problem

From: Rene Brun (Rene.Brun@cern.ch)
Date: Tue Feb 18 2003 - 16:52:36 MET


Hi Henning,

Thanks for this feedback. I am aware of this problem on AIX.
We will fix this problem in our Makefile.
Meanwhile, you must have a link "lib" pointing to $ROOTSYS/lib/freetype.a (not
very nice, but it should work).

Rene Brun

Henning Kiel wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I've just downloaded the binary distro of root for AIX, installed it on a
> AIX-4.3 and ran it successfully (though it is stated that it should only
> work on 4.5 machines).
> 
> The problem is that I can start it only from the $ROOTSYS directory.
> If I run it from some other dir I get an error. (BTW: I have set $LIBPATH,
> $PATH and $ROOTSYS correctly.)
> 
> kiel@zx3 [/home/kiel]>root
> exec(): 0509-036 Cannot load program /home/kiel/root/root/bin/root.exe because of the following errors:
>         0509-022 Cannot load module /home/kiel/root/root/lib/libGraf.a.
>         0509-150   Dependent module lib/libfreetype.a(libfreetype.so.6) could not be loaded.
>         0509-022 Cannot load module lib/libfreetype.a(libfreetype.so.6).
>         0509-026 System error: A file or directory in the path name does not exist.
> 
> Is it possible that the path to libfreetype is hardcoded
> (ie. "./liblibfreetype.a")?
> 
> Any help would be nice.
> 
> Yours,
> 
> Dipl.-Phys. Henning Kiel
> 
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