Re: error building root on RedHat 7.3

Hi,

you can try --disable-reflex, maybe that gets you farther. But we can't promise (and don't test) that 5.20 still works with GCC 3.2.

Cheers, Axel.

On 2008-07-30 17:35, Tom Roberts wrote:
> I am trying to build Root 5.20 on an old RedHat 7.3 system [#]. I want
> to do this in order to support my Geant4-based simulation program on
> most Linux boxes, because I must distribute an executable [@]. Yes, I
> have users still using such ancient boxes :-).
>
> The only use of Root is to read and write TNtuples, and the only Root
> classes it uses directly are TNtuple, TFile, and TDirectory. I am trying
> to get static Root libraries to work when building it (currently I build
> with a binary Root distribution (5.12), and copy the required Root .so-s
> into my distribution).
>
> I had to add "#include <ctype.h>" to core/utils/src/rlibmap.cxx
> (fixed: isalnum undefined)
>
> I then get this error, which I don't know how to fix:
>
> g++ -O2 -pipe -m32 -Wall -W -Woverloaded-virtual -fPIC -Iinclude
> -pthread -o cint/reflex/src/NameLookup.o -c cint/reflex/src/NameLookup.cxx
> cint/reflex/src/NameLookup.cxx: In member function `T
> Reflex::NameLookup::Lookup(bool) [with T = Reflex::Type]':
> cint/reflex/src/NameLookup.cxx:41: instantiated from here
> cint/reflex/src/NameLookup.cxx:145: no matching function for call to `
> Reflex::NameLookup::Lookup(bool)'
> cint/reflex/src/NameLookup.cxx: In member function `T
> Reflex::NameLookup::Lookup(bool) [with T = Reflex::Scope]':
> cint/reflex/src/NameLookup.cxx:50: instantiated from here
> cint/reflex/src/NameLookup.cxx:145: no matching function for call to `
> Reflex::NameLookup::Lookup(bool)'
> make: *** [cint/reflex/src/NameLookup.o] Error 1
> make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> rm core/utils/src/RStl_tmp.cxx core/utils/src/rootcint_tmp.cxx
>
>
> Any suggestion how to fix this?
>
> Is there some way I can short-circuit this and build without it,
> assuming that TNtuple/TFile/TDirectory don't really need all of CINT?
>
>
> [#] Well, this isn't really RH7.3. Actually it is
> a Fedora Core 8 Linux system running in a virtual machine
> on Mac OS X. The inner environment is a RH 7.3 disk
> image setup via chroot. So it's a modern Linux kernel but
> an ancient disk image and environment, using g++ 3.2.1.
> I have been building my program this way for years; this
> is the first time I've tried to build Root from source.
>
> [@] I must distribute an executable because my users are
> not computer experts. Building the program is quick and
> easy once the libraries are built; building them is not.
>
>
> Tom Roberts
>
>
Received on Wed Jul 30 2008 - 17:52:19 CEST