Re: Building root on fedora 10

From: Fons Rademakers <Fons.Rademakers_at_cern.ch>
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:54:08 +0100


When building in your private area can you first try this:

./configure
make

add ~/root/bin to $PATH and !/root/lib to $LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Try then:

cd ~/root/tutorials
root
.x benchmarks.C
.q

Cheers, Fons.

On 15/02/10 19:59, Aistis Simaitis wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to build root 5.26 on Fedora 10 from source.
>
> It seems to build and install successfully, but upon starting root I
> receive the following message:
>
> rootx xpm error: XpmOpenFailed
> ./root: can't start ROOT -- check that ~/root/bin/root.exe exists!
>
> I have made sure that my PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH are set correctly. The
> configure command I used was:
>
> ./configure --prefix=~/root --enable-explicitlink --etcdir=~/root/etc
> --enable-soversion
>
> I need to build in my private area.
>
> I get a similar error when I try to build 5.25/04.
>
> Aistis
>

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