Re: dictionary generation fails after ROOT v4.04 -> v5.12

Hi John,

check your %PATH% and %ROOTSYS%. Or rename the dir where your old root4 installation is at until you figured out what you did wrong when installing root.

Axel.

Dr. John Krane wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> If there has been any response to this, could you please re-send it to
> me directly? I have suffered a terrible email accident... I have no
> ability to view roottalk messages prior to now.
>
> Original message below.
>
> - John
> -------------------------------------
>
> Hi,
>
> I decided to update my version of root from 4.04.02g to 5.12.00f.
> Afterward, I tried to recompile some of my personal libraries and I get
> failure for my classes that use dictionary files. For instance, my
> Tree-writable date class fails with:
>
> [jkrane_at_cpc-tmt8a treeobj]$ make
> g++ -g3 -Wall -fPIC
> -I/data/z_packages_and_software/rpm_by_hand/root/current/root/include
> -pthread
> -I/data/z_packages_and_software/rpm_by_hand/root/current/root/include -c
> ObjDate.cpp
> Generating dictionary ObjDateCint.cpp...
> g++ -g3 -Wall -fPIC
> -I/data/z_packages_and_software/rpm_by_hand/root/current/root/include
> -pthread
> -I/data/z_packages_and_software/rpm_by_hand/root/current/root/include -c
> ObjDateCint.cpp
> ObjDateCint.cpp: In function `ROOT::TGenericClassInfo*
> ROOT::GenerateInitInstance(const ObjDate*)':
> ObjDateCint.cpp:53: error: no matching function for call to
> `ROOT::TGenericClassInfo::TGenericClassInfo(const char[8], Version_t,
> const char[10], int, const std::type_info&, const ROOT::TInitBehavior*,
> void (*)(), TClass*(*)(const void*), int, unsigned int)'
> /data/z_packages_and_software/rpm_by_hand/root/current/root/include/TGenericClassInfo.h:110:
>
> note: candidates are: ROOT::TGenericClassInfo::TGenericClassInfo()
> /data/z_packages_and_software/rpm_by_hand/root/current/root/include/TGenericClassInfo.h:106:
>
> note: ROOT::TGenericClassInfo::TGenericClassInfo(const
> ROOT::TGenericClassInfo&)
> /data/z_packages_and_software/rpm_by_hand/root/current/root/include/TGenericClassInfo.h:68:
>
> note: ROOT::TGenericClassInfo::TGenericClassInfo(const
> char*, Int_t, const char*, Int_t, const ROOT::TInitBehavior*, void
> (*)(), Int_t)
> /data/z_packages_and_software/rpm_by_hand/root/current/root/include/TGenericClassInfo.h:63:
>
> note: ROOT::TGenericClassInfo::TGenericClassInfo(const
> char*, Int_t, const char*, Int_t, const std::type_info&, const
> ROOT::TInitBehavior*, void (*)(), TVirtualIsAProxy*, Int_t, Int_t)
> /data/z_packages_and_software/rpm_by_hand/root/current/root/include/TGenericClassInfo.h:57:
>
> note: ROOT::TGenericClassInfo::TGenericClassInfo(const
> char*, Int_t, const char*, Int_t, const std::type_info&, const
> ROOT::TInitBehavior*, void*, void (*)(), TVirtualIsAProxy*, Int_t, Int_t)
> /data/z_packages_and_software/rpm_by_hand/root/current/root/include/TGenericClassInfo.h:51:
>
> note: ROOT::TGenericClassInfo::TGenericClassInfo(const
> char*, const char*, Int_t, const std::type_info&, const
> ROOT::TInitBehavior*, void*, void (*)(), TVirtualIsAProxy*, Int_t, Int_t)
> ObjDateCint.cpp:55: error: invalid conversion from `void*(*)(Long_t)' to
> `void*(*)(Long_t, void*)'
> ObjDateCint.cpp:55: error: initializing argument 1 of `void
> ROOT::TGenericClassInfo::SetNewArray(void*(*)(Long_t, void*))'
> make: *** [ObjDateCint.o] Error 1
> [jkrane_at_cpc-tmt8a treeobj]$
>
> Now, this failure did not occur under the old version of root. Has
> TGenericClassInfo changed between the two versions of root? If so, I
> don't understand how I could be getting the old version...but I see a
> symptom that indicates that I have an incomplete install. Please see
> the following screenshot of me launching ROOT. The "splash screen"
> still says v4.04 in the corner!
>
> screenshot:
> http://jkrane.home.comcast.net/temp_root_screenshot_emphasis.JPG
>
> Any ideas on how I can make a more-complete install? I'm stumped. I
> did not specifiy a target directory for either install. My
> config.status for each installation looks like:
>
> root_v4.04.02g
> --with-mysql-incdir=/usr/include/mysql
> --with-mysql-libdir=/usr/lib/mysql --enable-mysql
>
> root_v5.12.00f
> --with-mysql-incdir=/usr/include/mysql
> --with-mysql-libdir=/usr/lib/mysql --enable-mysql --enable-odbc
> --enable-minuit2 --enable-mathcore --enable-mathmore --enable-roofit
>
> - John
>
>
Received on Thu Dec 14 2006 - 16:49:07 MET