Re: $ROOTSYS issues for ubuntu package

From: Brett Viren <bv_at_bnl.gov>
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:30:02 -0500


Justin Findlay <jfindlay_at_gmail.com> writes:

> I've been trying out using the ubuntu package for ROOT and I've found
> encountered a few problems with it. Unfortunately, the ubuntu package
> as far as I can tell does not specify how the $ROOTSYS variable should
> be set. ROOTSYS=/ is the natural choice, but then I get problems like
> this:

Christian is the expert and should correct me if I'm wrong, but I recall that the deb packages use the "--prefix" installation method and does not use ROOTSYS. They are mutually exclusive. Instead of $ROOTSYS/{bin,lib,include}/ one gets <prefix>/bin and <prefix>/{lib,include}/root/.

I suggest never setting ROOTSYS=/ and then try to do any build related things as the "root" user.

-Brett. Received on Thu Feb 11 2010 - 19:30:06 CET

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