Hi rooters,
I compiled the 2.25 release two days ago and I am
now posting some comments on it; first of all I am
glad to see that there is no more need of precompiled
libraries and utilities, just the raw sources.
1) I usually include support for TrueType fonts and
OpenGL graphics in my buildings (by the way, this
is the first time TTfonts seem to work for me).
I had to change the makefile
$ROOTSYS/config/Makefile.linuxegcs
in the last lines:
GLLIBEXTRA = $(OPENGLLIBDIR)/libGLU.a $(OPENGLLIBDIR)/libGL.a
into libGLU.so and libGL.so; at least on my machine
the Mesa RPM package "Mesa-3.2-2" only includes the
dynamic libraries.
2) I had to specify a lot of options on the command
line during the configuration stage:
[10:59:45 /usr/local/Root]$ ./configure linuxegcs
--prefix=/usr/local/Root
--libdir=/usr/local/Root/lib
--incdir=/usr/local/Root/include
--datadir=/usr/local/Root
--etcdir=/usr/local/Root/etc
--macrodir=/usr/local/Root/macros
--cintdir=/usr/local/Root/cint
--iconpath=/usr/local/Root/icons
--docdir=/usr/local/Root/doc
--with-ttf-incdir=/usr/local/TTfonts/include
--with-ttf-fontdir=/usr/local/TTfonts/fonts
--with-opengl-incdir=/usr/X11R6/include
--with-opengl-libdir=/usr/X11R6/lib
most of these lines should be the default once the prefix
dir is set, but this turned out not to be true. E.g. all
libraries where dropped in $ROOTSYS/lib but the ROOT exe
tried to load them from $ROOTSYS/lib/root when --libdir
was not explicitely specified.
3) The ROOT exe complained about a missing root.mimes file;
I had to copy it by hand from the $ROOTSYS/icons directory
to the $ROOTSYS/etc one.
I hope this remarks will be useful in fixing the release
(otherwise let me know if I missed something, expecially
about the 2-nd complain).
Thank you,
Stefano Bettelli
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