Re: Error in ACLIC command-line parsing

From: Fons Rademakers <Fons.Rademakers_at_cern.ch>
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:35:35 +0100


Hi Tom,

  this is now fixed in the svn trunk and in the v5-22-00-patches and v5-20-00-patches branches.

Cheers, Fons.

Tom Roberts wrote:
> The command: "root -n -b -q -l
> /Users/tjrob/g4beamline-1.16-Darwin-g++/bin/G4blMovie.C++"
> Gives the error "Warning in <TApplication::GetOptions>: macro
> /Users/tjrob/g4beamline-1.16-Darwin-g not found".
>
> Clearly the parsing is incorrect, and any path with a directory name
> including ++ will not work. Replacing the final ++ with a single + did
> not change this.
>
> Note, however that this command works: "root -n -l
> /Users/tjrob/g4beamline-1.16-Darwin-g++/gui/HistoRoot.C"
>
> Note that Geant4 system identifiers all end with "g++", and I pretty
> much must use them as part of the directory name. As a workaround, I am
> copying the macro to /tmp and loading it from there.
>
> This is root 5.20 on Mac OS X.
>
>
> Tom Roberts
>

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