Re: New release of Debian ROOT packages - Development Snapshot

From: Roland Kuhn <rkuhn_at_e18.physik.tu-muenchen.de>
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 22:01:04 +0100


Hi Christian!

On 29 Oct 2006, at 11:50, Christian Holm Christensen wrote:

> Hi ROOT'ers and Debian Scientists,
>
> I have made new packages of ROOT for Debian GNU/Linux unstable ('sid')
> on i386. You can get them from
>
> deb http://mirror.phy.bnl.gov/debian-root unstable root
>
> The source package (slightly modifed to the upstream sources) are
> available from
>
> deb-src http://mirror.phy.bnl.gov/debian-root unstable root
>

[...]
> Call for builders: If you have Debian GNU/Linux running on some
> architecture other than i386, I'd very much like if you could try to
> rebuild the packages for your platform, and report back problems to me
> (cholm_at_nbi.dk). In particular, I'd like to hear about builds for
> amd64,
> ia64, powerpc, powerpc64, and similar. If you successfully make
> these
> packages, I'd gladly post them in the repository. Just put them
> somewhere I can get at them, and I'll upload them for others to use.
>

Okay, I've compiled it on amd64 with an up-to-date Debian testing, which went through. An oddity might be that each dpkg-deb call for building a package was preceded by a tar error message, complaining that a filename read from stdin contained a NUL character. I installed all resulting .deb files on a machine which previously did not have any X11 stuff (it's a rented remote server), so I'll have to trust that the dependencies for building pulled in all the required stuff.

One thing I noticed: it seems required to set ROOTSYS=/usr, otherwise there are complaints. For someone using ROOT already this is obvious, but if this is to go into Debian stable, /usr should be the default if nothing is set.

I only tried a simple thing:

rkuhn_at_XXX:~$ cat .rootrc
Gui.Backend: qt
Gui.Factory: qt
rkuhn_at_XXX:~$ root
Xlib: extension "XInputExtension" missing on display "localhost:10.0". Failed to get list of devices
** $Id: TGQt.cxx,v 1.33 2006/10/04 16:08:48 antcheva Exp $ this=0xb12a70 The font "symbol.ttf" was not installed yet Substitute it with "Arial"
Make sure your local "~/.fonts.conf" or "/etc/fonts/fonts.conf" file points to "$ROOOTSYS/fonts" directory to get the proper support for ROOT TLatex class

Compiled on 29 October 2006 for linuxx8664gcc with thread support.

CINT/ROOT C/C++ Interpreter version 5.16.15, September 21, 2006 Type ? for help. Commands must be C++ statements. Enclose multiple statements between { }. root [0] TH1F h("test","test",100,0,100) root [1] h.Draw()

Without Qt it works as expected. I tried saving the canvas as EPS and PDF, both worked, but that's about all I've got time for right now. I've put the .deb files on /afs/cern.ch/user/r/rkuhn/public/root_amd64

Ciao, 

                     Roland


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