Compilation error when building root 5.26 on a SL5 machine

From: Nicolas Arnaud <narnaud_at_lal.in2p3.fr>
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 16:30:15 +0200

Hello,

I'm trying to build root 5.26 on my SL5 virtual machine which is running in Sun VirtualBox on my XP laptop.

After downloading ftp://root.cern.ch/root/xpm/xpmLinuxegcs.tar.gz and installing libXpm.* in /usr/lib/ I ran

./configure linux --prefix=/usr/bin
[the choice of 'linux' as parameter comes from the output of |uname -a|: Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.18-164.9.1.el5 #1 SMP Tue Dec 15 15:08:06 EST 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux]

The command |gmake| runs for a while 'successfully' but ends with the following error:

(...)
g++ -m32 -O2 -o bin/root rootx/src/rootx.o rootx/src/rootxx.o -lXpm -lXext -lX11 -lXft
/usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.1.2/../../../libXpm.a(parse.o): In
function `xpmParseExtensions':
parse.c:(.text+0x13f8): undefined reference to `__ctype_b'
/usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.1.2/../../../libXpm.a(data.o): In
function `xpmNextWord':

data.c:(.text+0x482): undefined reference to `__ctype_b'
data.c:(.text+0x4bf): undefined reference to `__ctype_b'
data.c:(.text+0x504): undefined reference to `__ctype_b'
data.c:(.text+0x51b): undefined reference to `__ctype_b'

/usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.1.2/../../../libXpm.a(data.o):data.c:(.text+0x532):
more undefined references to `__ctype_b' follow collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
gmake: *** [bin/root] Error 1

Any idea about how I could fix this issue?

Thanks in advance,

Nicolas Received on Tue May 11 2010 - 16:30:23 CEST