Re: [ROOT] Crashing before main()

From: Christian Holm Christensen (cholm@nbi.dk)
Date: Wed May 26 2004 - 12:47:00 MEST


Hi Rene,

On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 08:41, Rene Brun wrote:
> Hi Christian,
> 
> In ROOT version 4.00/04 you can 
>  ./configure --enable-explicitlink
> to solve the problem discussed in your mail.

Ah, so you implemented it.  I remember Fons and I discussed that some
time ago. 

I hope you remember to set the `rpath' when `--enable-rpath' is given to
`configure' - otherwise, it's pretty meaningless. 

However, it doesn't change the fact that users have to, by hand specify
the ROOT libraries the client libraries depend on.

> Also note that with the version currently in CVS, the automatic loading
> of a shared lib is implemented, eg
> root > TLorentzVector v;
> This statement in CINT will automatically do gSystem->Load("libPhysics");

But that's an entirely different issue.  This has to do with your plugin
manager.  I think I brought up the issue some time ago with Fons, that
the plugin manager should really be used more heavily.  What I had in
mind, was that libraries like `libFumili' are really plugins and not
libraries at all.   Hence, they should live in a separate directory
(e.g., <prefix>/lib/root/plugins), and really be linked like `libtool
-module' would do (on windows, a dll without a corresponding lib file). 

Maybe, you could extent the system.rootmap functionality a bit further,
so that clients can add more files of that type to some directory
(/etc/root/plugins), as well as some place to look for additional files
with lines like `+Plugin.<...> ......'.  In that way, client code can
easily integrate it's code into ROOT. 

> The rootmap file contains all the dependencies for a given class
> and the corresponding shared libs will be loaded in the right order.

Basically the output of `nm -C', massaged a bit, right? 

Yours,

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