A few comments on the Makefile distributed with 2.00/09 source. I am trying to get root running on what redhat linux 5.1. To make things interesting the version of redhat 5.1 that I have is (I think) slightly nonstandard. Anyway, I thought that I would report a couple of things that I found. 1/ First I tried to install root 2.00/09 right out of the box. The root interpreter would work fine but when I tried to compile the test codes in $ROOTSYS/test/ it failed miserably. I got the following: --------------------------------------------------- [fduncan@cygnus test]$ make g++ -O -Wall -fPIC -I/home/tools/root/include -c Event.cxx Generating dictionary ... Note: operator new() masked 1c Note: operator delete() masked 1c class EventHeader in Event.h line 19 original base of virtual func g++ -O -Wall -fPIC -I/home/tools/root/include -c EventCint.cxx g++ -O -Wall -fPIC -I/home/tools/root/include -c MainEvent.cxx g++ -Wl,-soname,libEvent.so -shared -g Event.o EventCint.o -o libEvent.so g++ -g MainEvent.o Event.o EventCint.o -L/home/tools/root/lib -lNew -lBase -lCint -lClib -lCont -lFunc -lGraf -lGraf3d -lHist -lHtml -lMatrix -lMeta -lMinuit -lNet -lPostscript -lProof -lTree -lUnix -lZip -lg++ -lm -ldl -rdynamic -o Event /usr/bin/ld: warning: libstdc++.so.2.7.2, needed by /home/tools/root/lib/libNew.so, may conflict with libstdc++.so.2.8 Event.o: In function `Event type_info function': Event.o(.text+0x1308): undefined reference to `TObject type_info function' Event.o(.text+0x130e): undefined reference to `TObject type_info node' EventCint.o: In function `Track type_info function': EventCint.o(.text+0x5084): undefined reference to `TObject type_info function' EventCint.o(.text+0x508a): undefined reference to `TObject type_info node' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [Event] Error 1 [fduncan@cygnus test]$ --------------------------------------------------- I suspected that this is an incompatability with the redhat 5.0 and 5.1 libraries. I don't know if anybody else has this problem but I am reporting it just in case it is of interest. As I said, it may be due to either the fact that I am using redhat 5.1 or that I have a slightly nonstandard version. 2/ Then I tried using the make file to build root from scratch. There are a couple of things that I wanted to point out that are not big problems with the make files but they would tidy things up a bit. This is what I found: * I untarred the source tree in a new directory /data1/fduncan/root/ * I made the link in src/ ln -s Makefile.linux Makefile * I ran make Problems: 1) there were no bin/ and lib/ directories so I created them by hand. Could the standard distribution have these put in? 2) The make crashed when it couldn't find libXpm.a It took me a while to realize that it is a system library and not supposed to be distributed with root. Part of the confusion was that if I look in old versions of root, libXpm.a is in $ROOTSYS/lib. Maybe the make file could be changed to not make it look like libXpm.a is supposed to be in $ROOTSYS/lib (Also I guess you need libXpm.so to run applications...) 3) There was no $ROOTSYS/include directory with the header files in it. Could the make file create and stuff this directory? 4) There was no $ROOTSYS/icons directory. I stole the directory from the binary distribution of 2.00/09 The last problem with building root from scratch is probably my fault. When I compiled the programs in the test directory I got a warning: --------------------------------------------- g++ -O -Wall -fPIC -I/data1/fduncan/root/include -c hworld.cxx g++ -g hworld.o -L/data1/fduncan/root/lib -lNew -lBase -lCint -lClib -lCont -lFunc -lGraf -lGraf3d -lHist -lHtml -lMatrix -lMeta -lMinuit -lNet -lPostscript -lProof -lTree -lUnix -lZip -lGpad -lGui -lGX11 -lX3d -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lXpm -lX11 -lg++ -lm -ldl -rdynamic -o hworld /usr/bin/ld: warning: libstdc++.so.2.7.2, needed by /usr/lib/libg++.so, may conflict with libstdc++.so.2.8 hworld done ---------------------------------------------- I don't know if this is a problem with my linux installation or if it is a problem with the way the root libraries are made. Hope these comments are helpfull. - Fraser Duncan
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