Building ROOT on Ubuntu linux

ROOT
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Hi there,

i am trying to build root from source on my ubuntu system. I untar/zip the root archive in my home directory.

I first set the environmental variable to the Root directory:

export ROOTSYS=$HOME/root

(I checked the $ROOTSYS, it points at the right directory)

in the root directory I type:

./configure

this gives me the message:
" type make to install root"

i type

make

and after all the cp procedures the following errors occur:

In file included from build/rmkdepend/cppsetup.c:30:
build/rmkdepend/def.h:35:19: error: stdio.h: No such file or directory
build/rmkdepend/def.h:37:20: error: string.h: No such file or directory
build/rmkdepend/def.h:39:19: error: ctype.h: No such file or directory
build/rmkdepend/def.h:40:23: error: sys/types.h: No such file or directory
build/rmkdepend/def.h:41:19: error: fcntl.h: No such file or directory
build/rmkdepend/def.h:42:22: error: sys/stat.h: No such file or directory
build/rmkdepend/def.h:127:20: error: stdlib.h: No such file or directory
…

At the end there is:

make: bin/rmkdepend: Command not found
make: *** [cint/src/g__cfunc.o] Error 127

Does anyone have an idea?

best regards

merc
2

Do you have the proper develop libraries and compilers installed on your Ubuntu system? Can you compile any program containing any of these missing header files.

Cheers, Fons.

3

At first i got some error messages, that certain packages are missing, like X11 and g77-dev. I installed all of these.

Is there any complete list of all the packages needed?

And no, i cant build any programs that include these headers.

  greetings

merc

4

ROOT needs at least the C++ compiler, glibc-devel and X11-devel (or xorg-devel). The rest is optional, just look at what configure did detect. If you decide you want additional things like e.g. the mysql interface install also the mysql-devel package, etc.

Cheers, Fons.

5

Thank you very much, now i found all the packages needed.

At least it is compiling now, lets hope there are no further problems :slight_smile:

Thank you again!