`Make-depend' is still broken in ROOT 2.22.10. This file has contained illegal characters for the last few releases of ROOT, making it impossible to compile ROOT from source. Also, the "depend" target in `Make-macros' is broken as well (at least for RedHat Linux 6.0 Intel systems), since the program it calls to generate dependencies is non-existent in the binary distribution. The following perl snippet will fix this: $ cd $ROOTSYS/src $ perl -i.orig -p -e 's{(?:/|\$ROOTSYS)[^\s]+}{};s{^[^:]+:\s*$}{}' Make-depend If by some chance you don't have Perl on your system, but you have "sed", then the Perl command can be replaced with the following two lines: $ cd $ROOTSYS/src $ mv Make-depend Make-depend.orig $ sed -e 's/\$ROOTSYS//' -e 's/\/[^ ][^ ]*//' -e '/^[^:][^:]*:[ ]$/d' Make-depend.orig > Make-depend NOTE: In the sed command above, the last two characters within the 1st, 2nd and 5th square brackets are a SPACE followed by a TAB. Some broken MTUs translate TAB incorrectly, so you may need to add the TAB characters back in by hand. The ROOT Makefiles should probably not have Makefile header dependencies on external packages. This will only get in the way of the general ROOT user. Am I missing something as to why they continue to be distributed? Perhaps there are users who want or need this feature for some reason unknown to me. Is this the case? The `Make-depend' file is a valuable courtesy to the general ROOT user, and having it work consistently on multiple platforms can only be guaranteed if the Makefile header dependencies are limited to those files which the ROOT packager has direct control over, namely the ROOT package itself. -- Matthew D. Langston SLD, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center langston@SLAC.Stanford.EDU
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