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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