Re: [ROOT] ROOT for MacOS X

From: cstrato (cstrato@aon.at)
Date: Thu Feb 20 2003 - 22:01:30 MET


Dear Damir, George, Remi, Manuel and other fellow MacRooters

It is great to see that the MacRoot community is growing.

Thank you all for your hints. During the weekend I will
delete my harddisk and start from scratch. I will let you
know what I needed to do do get ROOT running.

Best regards
Christian


Damir Buskulic wrote:

> Hi George and al.,
> 
> I believe Keisuke's fixes for gcc apply only to gcc 2.95, which was used
> with MacOSX 10.1. Jaguar (10.2) uses gcc 3.1 which doesn't need any fix.
> But it is best to use the December Dev tools (available on apple
> developper site, though it is quite big to Download). This is only for
> Jaguar, not MacOSX 10.1, where you will have to apply Keisuke's fixes for
> the compiler.
> For the rest, you may use Keisuke's tools OR Fink, which provides
> everything else, like dlcompat, bash, etc..
> except of course the physics tools like CERNLIB, which I believe you can
> find at CERN, though I didn't try.
>>From what I understood, Fink and Keisuke's tools may live side by side on
> a system, but you probably don't need both.
> 
> Lastly, Apple released a few weeks ago an accelerated version of an X11
> server which works quite nicely and is very simple to install. Again, I'm
> not sure it all works on 10.1
> 
> Conclusion : if you can, upgrade to Jaguar
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Damir
>  
>  On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, George Irwin wrote:
> 
> 
>>I thought most of K. Fujii's fixes were to the macosx version of GCC,
>>not to ROOT.  It's still not clear to me whether one needs these,
>>or something from fink, or neither to build and run ROOT in macosx.
>>I currently use Keisuke's fixes (with GCC 2.95 under MacOSX 10.1.5),
>>but not fink.  George
>>
>>
>>>You do not need K.Fujii's fixes to ROOT. All his fixes plus
>>>many others from various contributions have been included
>>>in the ROOT source.
>>>
>>>Rene Brun
>>>
>>>On Wed, 19 Feb
>>>2003, cstrato wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Dear MacRooters
>>>>
>>>>Since I have severe problems compiling GUI apps with MacOS X 10.1.2,
>>>>I will finally rebuild my complete system and install version 10.2.4
>>>>and the December 2002 Developer Tools.
>>>>Furthermore, I will use XDarwin 4.2.1.1 and Fink 0.5.1.
>>>>
>>>>My question now is:
>>>>Do I still need to apply the patches from K.Fujii's Home Page?
>>>>Do I need some other tools?
>>>>
>>>>Best regards
>>>>Christian
>>>>
> 
> 
> 



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