Hi Charlie,
if you run on ppc64 use:
./configure linuxppc64gcc
to configure in which case the right directories, i.e. lib64 will be searched.
Cheers, Fons.
Charlie Maguire wrote:
> 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
>>>
>>
>
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