Re: [ROOT] make install on Solaris

From: Fons Rademakers (Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch)
Date: Tue May 29 2001 - 15:16:36 MEST


Hi John,

   thanks for mentioning this. Now fixed.

Cheers, Fons.



John Zweizig wrote:
> 
> I just tried to install root 3.01/03 on a Solaris system with a gcc-2.95.2
> compiler and, to put it bluntly, it didn't. I decided to use the
> "make --prefix=" and "make install" procedure so that I can keep a
> single copy of the cvs sources and while maintaining multiple (development
> and production at least) versions of the binaries and include files.
> 
> I did the following:
> 
> 1) got the source tree from cvs. Modified root/config/Makefile.solarisegcs
>    so it wouldn't fail to compile (i.e. I removed -I/usr/openwin/include)
> 
> 2) ./configure solarisegcs --prefix /opt/CERN/root_3.01-03
>    make
>    (all went well)
> 
> 3) make install
>    /bin/sh: syntax error at line 1: `(' unexpected
>    make: *** [install] Error 2
> 
> A little investigation into this error showed that the problem is on line
> 368 of root/Makefile
> 
>    inode2=`ls -id $$(pwd)/bin | awk '{ print $$1 }'`; \
> 
> the $() construct is unique to the bash shell which isn't the default
> shell on Solaris. This should be replaced with a more standard construct
> like \`pwd\` or $$PWD which work with either bas or traditional sh.
> 
> After fixing this, I one again tried "make install" but this resulted in
> a few hundred copies of:
> 
>   cp: illegal option -- d
>   Usage: cp [-f] [-i] [-p] f1 f2
>          cp [-f] [-i] [-p] f1 ... fn d1
>          cp -r|R [-f] [-i] [-p] d1 ... dn-1 dn
> 
> Clearly, the -d option isn't understood by the Solaris cp command. I
> modified root/config/Makfile.config to remove the -d option in the INSTALL
> and INSTALLDATA macros.
> 
> Finally, "make install" worked... Now to test the compiled root...
> Best regards,
> 
> John

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