Hi Manuel,
On Wednesday, April 2, 2003, at 06:27 AM, Manuel Bardiès wrote:
> OK, root/Fink seems to work.
> I have a concern, though:
> I (try to) use a code which is based on Geant, and that makes use of
> dylibs.
> when I try to run it I've got:
> can't open library: libCore.dylib
> Is there a work around?
> You mentioned that those libs are now hardcoded...
> Well, this goes beyond my knowledge...
> Any hint?
As your geant application is probably compiled without using hard coded
paths (done with the ld flag -install_name
<full_path_to_the_install_location>) you have to set the
DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH to /sw/lib/root in order to tell geant where to look
for the root libs.
Cheers,
Remi
> Le mardi, 1 avr 2003, à 19:24 Europe/Paris, Remi Mommsen a écrit :
>
>> Hi Manuel,
>>
>> On Monday, March 31, 2003, at 11:16 PM, Manuel Bardiès wrote:
>>
>>> Congratulations Remi, this definitely will help Mac users.
>>> One question, though:
>>> I already have a root version running on my TiBook.
>>> What should I remove before I install the Fink version?
>>> I know that since Fink packages live in the /sw directory, I should
>>> not worry too much, but...
>>
>> Root follows the fink policy and installs everything under /sw. As
>> the library path is hardcoded into the root executable built by fink,
>> it is not necessary to set $ROOTSYS or $DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH. Therefore
>> you can just leave your old root version on your disk and just unset
>> the both environments and remove the $ROOTSYS/bin from your PATH.
>> Then you should pick up the root from fink which gets installed into
>> /sw/bin.
>>
>>> Any chance to see Geant as a Fink package?
>>
>> Well, the chance is sure not zero, but I'm not actively using geant.
>> I suppose you ask for geant4? I have also a request for CERNLIB,
>> especially PAW. However, this is a hard piece and I'm not sure if I
>> manage to pack it up for fink.
>>
>>> Once again, thank you,
>>
>> You're very welcome.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Remi
>>
>>
>>> Manuel
>>>
>>> Le lundi, 31 mars 2003, à 20:22 Europe/Paris, Remi Mommsen a écrit :
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Root is now available as fink package (http://fink.sf.net) for Mac
>>>> OS X. It is based on the production release 3.04.02. If you like to
>>>> use it, you have to enable the unstable tree of fink (see
>>>> http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-fink.php#unstable). Please
>>>> let me know if you encounter any problems. If it works well for
>>>> you, let me know, too. Then the root package can move to the stable
>>>> tree which makes it more easy to access.
>>>>
>>>> In order to make the root package conforming to the fink policy, I
>>>> had to enable the versioning of the root libraries. The standard
>>>> versioning implemented in the root makefiles adds the versioning
>>>> information at the end of the libraries, i.e. libCore.so.3.04. On
>>>> Mac OS X all libraries have the version before the extension, i.e.
>>>> libCore.3.04.so (in contrast to Linux where both versions are
>>>> common). I changed the makefiles to produce the latter format and
>>>> tested them both on Mac OS X and Linux RH 7.2. I attach the patch
>>>> file (against the current CVS version) in case that you'll like to
>>>> incorporate this change into the ROOT CVS.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Remi
>>>>
>>>>
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