Re: Moving from IRIX 5.3 to 6.5

From: Matthew D. Langston (langston@SLAC.stanford.edu)
Date: Tue May 18 1999 - 01:58:55 MEST


Hi Scott,

Scott Sampson wrote:
> 
> I compile programs which use ROOT and link with fortran .o files which
> use cernlib. I did this without problems on IRIX 5.3.
> 
> My sysadmin recently upgrade our SGI from IRIX5.3 to IRIX6.5. I assume
> that I have to use a ROOT version compiled under IRIX6.X, so I
> download the gcc IRIX6.2 from the website and change my Makefile to
> use gcc. But when I try compiling I get

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

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.

--
Matthew D. Langston
SLD, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
langston@SLAC.Stanford.EDU



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