Re: [ROOT] PyROOT link stage

From: Rene Brun (Rene.Brun@cern.ch)
Date: Mon May 03 2004 - 23:32:02 MEST


Elias,

I do not see this problem.
Did you follow carefully the insyructions at:
http://root.cern.ch/root/HowtoPyROOT.html

in particular did you specify --enable-explicitlink in configuring?

Rene Brun

On Mon, 
3 May 2004, Elias 
Athanasopoulos wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> I tried to run the PyROOT demos, but:
> 
> elathan@velka:/usr/local/share/doc/root/tutorials> python demo.py 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "demo.py", line 11, in ?
> import ROOT
> File "/usr/local/lib/root/ROOT.py", line 26, in ?
> from libPyROOT import * 
> ImportError: /usr/local/lib/root/libPyROOT.so: undefined symbol: _ZNK7TObject7DoErrorEiPKcS1_Pc
> 
> It seems that libPyROOT.so is not linked against the ROOT libraries.
> 
> elathan@velka:/usr/local/lib/root> ldd libPyROOT.so 
>     libstdc++.so.5 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 (0x400ef000)
>     libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x401a8000)
>     libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x401ca000)
>     libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x401d2000)
>     /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x80000000)
>                                         
> I modified the linking stage using root-config:
> 
> elathan@velka:/opt/root/root> g++ -shared -Wl,-soname,libPyROOT.so -O -o lib/libPyROOT.so pyroot/src/ConstructorDispatcher.o pyroot/src/MemoryRegulator.o pyroot/src/MethodDispatcher.o pyroot/src/MethodHolder.o pyroot/src/ObjectHolder.o pyroot/src/PyBufferFactory.o pyroot/src/RootModule.o pyroot/src/RootWrapper.o pyroot/src/TPython.o pyroot/src/Utility.o pyroot/src/G__PyROOT.o /usr/lib/python2.2/config/libpython2.2.a `root-config --libs`
> 
> Then, I copied the new libPyROOT.so to ROOT's installation directory
> and I was able to run the demos without problems.
> 
> Is libPyROOT.so intentionaly not linked with ROOT libs? 
> 
> I may be wrong on this, but using the current ROOT's Makefiles you
> can have access to PyROOT only via CINT's interactive mode (i.e. load
> libPyROOT.so after CINT has loaded all the other needed ROOT libs).
> 
> Regards,
> 



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