Hi, I've taken a crack at getting ROOT 2.00/10 to build using the usual GNU set of configuration tools - autoconf, libtool, and automake. This was a fair chunk of cut and paste work with the new ROOT makefiles augmented by some new Makefile templates and an autoconf configuration script. Even though the point of using these tools is to handle differences between platforms transparently, some more work is needed in the Makefile templates before this really becomes true. For now, things build smoothly for me on Intel/Linux - your mileage may vary. I've also talked with Steve Adler about his recent note about rpm'ing the ROOT distribution and I think the two things can be made to work very nicely together. For those compiling from scratch, the autoconf stuff helps deal with messy platform differences, and for those installing a pre-built distibution having an rpm file available is extremely nice. And if the platform differences in the ROOT sources are eventually modified to be handled using autoconf macros, it should make porting to new systems easier. Anyway, I thought it might be useful to make available what I have so far. You can download the root-2.10.tar.gz file (automatically made by automake, incidentally) from http://www.phenix.bnl.gov/~dave/root/ Just download it, `tar zxvf' it, and do something like mkdir root-build; cd root-build ../root-2.10/configure --prefix=$HOME/root make make install Dave -- David Morrison Brookhaven National Laboratory phone: 516-344-5840 Physics Department, Bldg 510 C fax: 516-344-3253 Upton, NY 11973-5000 email: dave@bnl.gov
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