Hi Alain, Alain Ninane wrote: > > We are trying to compile the latest release of root on a linux box > running Red Hat 5.2. > > [snip] > > Do you have any ideas that might help. You may want to try my Autoconfed version of ROOT at ftp://ftp.slac.stanford.edu/users/langston/root/root-2.21.08.tar.gz. The ROOT source code in this package has not been changed from what you get from ftp://root.cern.ch/root/ - it is still the vanilla version of ROOT v. 2.21.08. The only difference is that it has been repackaged in the GNU style, i.e. with Autoconf, Automake and Libtool. It builds just like you would expect any standard GNU package to build, i.e. with the following 4 commands: $ ./configure $ make $ make check $ make install The advantage of this is that you do not need to install the binary version of ROOT first, i.e. ROOT builds directly from the source code. For more information, you can read the announcement of this package from the RootTalk Digest at http://root.cern.ch/root/roottalk/roottalk99/0699.html FYI, I have also made RPMs based on this version of ROOT using egcs-1.1.1. If you wanted to use these, they are available as: $ rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.slac.stanford.edu/users/langston/root/root-2.21.08-1.i386.rpm $ rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.slac.stanford.edu/users/langston/root/root-examples-2.21.08-1.i386.rpm $ rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.slac.stanford.edu/users/langston/root/root-docs-2.21.08-1.i386.rpm If you want to build ROOT yourself, then you could grab ftp://ftp.slac.stanford.edu/users/langston/root/root-2.21.08-1.src.rpm and do the following to build your own RPMs: $ rpm --rebuild root-2.21.08-1.src.rpm It is important to note that this software is not yet officially supported by the ROOT Team. However, they are aware of my efforts to add GNU Autoconf, Automake and Libtool support to ROOT. This package should be considered beta, as it has not seen widespread testing outside of SLAC. However, it has been successfully used on Linux systems at SLAC, and it is the primary analysis tool that I have been using for my own physics analysis for quite some time. -- Matthew D. Langston SLD, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center langston@SLAC.Stanford.EDU
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