Re: Debian Packages

From: Christian Holm Christensen <cholm_at_nbi.dk>
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 22:57:59 +0100


Hi Daniele,

On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 20:58 +0100, Daniele Nicolodi wrote:
> Hello, i'm a youn scientist and was asked to me to learn something about
> root because i'll use it in a stage at the Tuebingen University. I'm in
> the world of open source software as user an programmer software since
> some years. I don't like C++ but i like a lot python so i'm pleased to
> see that root framework is binded to python.
>
> I run debian unstable on my machines so i tried to build debian packages
> but any package of the ones builded by 'make debian' contain python
> bindings even if i runned 'configure --enable-python'.

The problem is, that the current packaging scripts in ROOT are pretty old - way before the Python bindings was introduced. However, I have recently revamped the packaging scripts and submitted a patch to Fons that should take care of all this.

The new packaging are far more flexible and easy to maintainer, so updating to new `plugins' should be far easier.

> I have done something wrong or that is a limitation of the build
> system ?

You did nothing wrong. It's to some extent my fault that I haven't kept the scripts up to date for some time. However, as soon as the patch hits CVS, things should be much better :-)

Yours,

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