Hi Damir, The test reported by Stephen runs correctly on RH Linux with all incarnations of gcc. It seems to be a problem with PPCLinux only with the gcc2.9X versions. Rene Brun Damir Buskulic wrote: > > Hi, > > I see the same behaviour as Stephen. Since Jiri doesn't see it, I > suppose it may be connected to a cint/gcc2.96 issue... I tried to look > at the generation of the kTRUE variable, but didn't find anything > obvious. Furthermore, if one replaces "kTRUE" by "true" everywhere in a > script, everything seems to work. But if a variable was set with kTRUE, > even resetting it with 1 or "true" doesn't work. Weird. > > Stephen, is it a big problem for you to change in your scripts "kTRUE" > to "true" or 1 ? At least until we all have gcc 3 ;-) If it is a > problem, I must admit I'm stuck here unless a cint expert takes the case. > > Cheers > > Damir > > P.S. I too do not want to give up on my Mac ! > > Jiri Masik wrote: > > "Stephen J. Sanders" <ssanders@ku.edu> writes: > > > > > >>Hi, > >>Root in its latest version does not run correctly on the linux PPC > >>platform. The > >>problem seems to be with the new treatment of booleans: > >> > >>Using the binaries built for Suse7.3 on a YellowDog Linux 2.2 system: > >>root [0] Bool_t a = kTRUE; > >>root [1] a > >>(Bool_t)0 > >>root [2] kTRUE > >>(const Bool_t)0 > >>root [3] true > >>(const bool)1 > >>root [4] Bool_t a = true > >>root [5] a > >>(Bool_t)0 > >> > >>Similar problems occur if I compile from source on the YDL system. > >>I tried the simple minded approach of redefining the Bool_t back to the way > >>it was in version 3.1 of root (where everything worked fine) but, of > >>course, this > >>results in numerous compilation complaints of redefined variables. > >> > >>Any suggestions (other than giving up on my Macintosh!)? > >> > >>Regards, Steve > > > > > > Hi Steve, > > > > I cannot reproduce what you describe - I'm running > > * Version 3.03/04 30 April 2002 * > > on Linux/Debian/ppc, compiled from source with gcc-3.0.4, > > configured with linuxdeb2ppc. > > > > What architecture did you use in ./configure? > > cheers, > > Jiri > > > > -- > ===================================================================== > | Damir Buskulic | Universite de Savoie/LAPP | > | | Chemin de Bellevue, B.P. 110 | > | Tel : +33 (0)450091600 | F-74941 Annecy-le-Vieux Cedex | > | e-mail: buskulic@lapp.in2p3.fr | FRANCE | > ===================================================================== > mailto:buskulic@lapp.in2p3.fr
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