I perfectly agree and always take the good old tar files. I just
complained because I have twice lost time due to friends of me having
installed ROOT the other way. It was not immediat to understand where their
problems came from. René Brun has sent to me a mail saying that he has
signalled the problem in the ROOT download page.
François-Xavier Gentit
DAPNIA/SPP CEA Saclay
http://gentit.home.cern.ch/gentit/
-----Message d'origine-----
De : Nick van Eijndhoven [mailto:Nick@phys.uu.nl]
Envoyé : vendredi 8 novembre 2002 16:15
À : GENTIT Francois-Xavier DAPNIA
Cc : 'roottalk@pcroot.cern.ch'
Objet : Re: [ROOT] Do not install ROOT in "Program Files"
Hi Francois,
If I remember well, this problem was already brought up a long
time ago. Therefore on the ROOT download page, the suggested
'autoexec.bat' lines for ROOT indicate c:\root as preferred directory.
The suggestion of this silly Program Files directory you mention
probably comes from the install shield stuff.
My opinion is that one has to be very careful with this install shield
stuff, since it edits your autoexec.bat.
>From the Qt version from the BNL site I have seen that sometimes this
'autoexec.bat editing' is not performed correctly. Furthermore,
un-installing the (Qt) package again even removes the standard ROOTSYS
etc... definitions, which clearly is a pain in the a..
Therefore I would suggest users to just install the binaries using
the 'good old tar files'.
Cheers,
Nick.
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GENTIT Francois-Xavier DAPNIA wrote:
>
> Dear Rooters,
> I had twice to help rooters [Benoit.Horeau@cea.fr, and
> Patrick.Jarry@cern.ch] because of the following problem concerning ROOT on
> Windows:
> if ROOT is installed in the directory C:\Program Files, ( which is
> proposed by default ! ) one has problems after that with makefile,
because
> of the blank character in "Program Files".
> A warning should be given to users on the ROOT download page, and you
> should choose C:\ instead of C:\Program Files for the default directory
> proposed.
> Thanks
>
> François-Xavier Gentit
> DAPNIA/SPP CEA Saclay
> http://gentit.home.cern.ch/gentit/
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