Dear Fons,
The --disable-xml skip did work but I ran into other problems later
which appear to be a 32 bit vs 64 bit confusion. In fact, the libxml2
error may be the same thing since there is an alternate /usr/lib64/
directory which should have been searched instead of /usr/lib .
Could you tell me how I enforce either a 32 bit or a 64 bit
compilation and link for ROOT?
If you want me to take this thread off the roottalk list, let me know.
Regards,
Charlie
Fons Rademakers wrote:
> Hi Charlie,
>
> I've only access to ppc64 under FC4 on my Mac G5 where it builds
> nicely. There are two options:
> - install your self a compatible libxml2, normally the latest
> libxml2 is ok (you don't happen to build for ppc64 do you?)
> - use the --disable-xml which will skip the building of the xml
> interface plugin
>
> Cheers, Fons.
>
>
> Charlie Maguire wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I experienced an error concerning the libxml2.so library when
>> I attempted to build ROOT5.08/00 from source on a
>> PowerPC/SuSe SLES 9.0 platform (2.2 GHz JS20 IBM CPU).
>> Previously I was successful in building ROOT5.08/00
>> from the same source tar file on two Intel CPU platforms,
>> one running Scientific Linux and the other WhiteBox Linux
>> clones of RH3.
>>
>> There is a libxml2.so library, softlinked to libxml2.so.2.6.7,
>> on the PowerPC system but the build command reports an error
>>
>> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-suse-linux/3.3.3/../../../../powerpc-suse-linux/bin/ld:
>>
>> skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libxml2.so when searching for -lxml2
>>
>> and eventually reports that it cannot find libxml2.so .
>>
>> On the two Intel platforms where I was successful in building ROOT
>> the libxml2 libraries are slightly older: libxml2.so.2.5.10
>> and libxml2.so.2.4.25 .
>>
>> Prior to the make command on the PowerPC, I ran a configure command
>> without
>> any options specified. The build error occurred after about
>> 95% of the compilations has succeeded.
>>
>> The PowerPC platform is a new addition to the University's
>> large computer farm to which our group has been give access.
>>
>> Later I plan to build the CERNLIBs on this platform, in case
>> anyone has related experience in that effort.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Charlie
>>
>
Received on Thu Jan 19 2006 - 01:03:36 MET