Hi Damon Damon> I am trying to compile the most recent version of ROOT on a Pentium Damon> machine running RedHat 4.2. The compilation proceeds smoothly using Damon> Makefile.linuxrh42 in the source distribution until it attempts to build Damon> root.exe. Fons> try moving in the makefile -lXpm just before -lX or copy the Fons> libXpm.so and libXpm.a from /usr/X11R6/lib to $ROOTSYS/lib. If Fon's suggestion doesn't work, 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. People have been quite successful in building this version, especially on Linux. 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 In your case, you will benefit from Autoconf because it determines automatically what X11 libraries you need, in what order to place them on the link line, and where the Xpm library is supposed to fit in. 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. 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. This package should be considered beta, as it has not seen widespread testing outside of SLAC. Having said that, it is the version of ROOT I use for my everyday physics analysis. -- Matthew D. Langston SLD, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center langston@SLAC.Stanford.EDU
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