Re: Debian Packages

From: Rene BRUN <rene.brun_at_cern.ch>
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 12:27:35 +0100

Hi Antonio,

To install ROOT with Pythia6, you do not have to install Pythia5 ! I would like to get rid of the interface with Pythia5 very soon.

Note also the neccessary steps to get libEGPythia6 created at the ROOT install page http://root.cern.ch/root/Install.html

Rene Brun

Antonio Amorim wrote:
> Christian Holm Christensen wrote:
>

>> Hi Daniele,
>> On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 20:58 +0100, Daniele Nicolodi wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> Hello, i'm a youn scientist and was asked to me to learn something about
>>> root because i'll use it in a stage at the Tuebingen University. I'm in
>>> the world of open source software as user an programmer software since
>>> some years. I don't like C++ but i like a lot python so i'm pleased to
>>> see that root framework is binded to python.
>>>
>>> I run debian unstable on my machines so i tried to build debian packages
>>> but any package of the ones builded by 'make debian' contain python
>>> bindings even if i runned 'configure --enable-python'.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> The problem is, that the current packaging scripts in ROOT are pretty
>> old - way before the Python bindings was introduced.   However, I have
>> recently revamped the packaging scripts and submitted a patch to Fons
>> that should take care of all this. 
>> The new packaging are far more flexible and easy to maintainer, so
>> updating to new `plugins' should be far easier.
>>  
>>
>>> I have done something wrong or that is a limitation of the build
>>> system ?
>>>   
>>
>>
>> You did nothing wrong.   It's to some extent my fault that I haven't
>> kept the scripts up to date for some time.  However, as soon as the
>> patch hits CVS, things should be much better :-)
>> Yours,
>>  
>>

> Dear Christian,
>
> Please do not include a package for the root truetype fonts. They do
> not contain capital characters with accentuation and spoil many programs
> including openoffice that automatically uses them by default wen they
> become available.
> Also the Pythia situation was difficult for ROOT 04-02. It would be
> nice to be able to create the root-pythia6 with libpythia6 but without
> having to install the libpythia5 that is really very old. The present
> configure does not compile pythia6 if libpythia5 is not available.
>
> Please let us know when we can pick the new code to test and put them
> back in PAIPIX.
>
> All the best,
> Antonio Amorim
Received on Wed Mar 16 2005 - 12:27:41 MET