Making ROOT on Ubuntu 14.04

ROOT
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Hi,

I’m trying to complile root on an ubuntu 14.04. I followed the instructions on this page

root.cern.ch/drupal/content/inst … oot-source

but get an error when I try to make

My steps:

git clone root.cern.ch/git/root.git
cd root
git tag -l
git checkout -b v5-34-18 v5-34-18
./configure
make

lori@lori-Veriton-M4620G:~/root$ make
*** Building libAfterImage …
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/lori/root/graf2d/asimage/src/libAfterImage’
gcc -m64 -O3 -DNO_DEBUG_OUTPUT -fPIC -I/usr/include/freetype2 -c asfont.c -o asfont.o
asfont.c:67:33: fatal error: freetype/freetype.h: No such file or directory

include <freetype/freetype.h>

                              ^

compilation terminated.
make[1]: *** [asfont.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/lori/root/graf2d/asimage/src/libAfterImage’
make: *** [graf2d/asimage/src/libAfterImage/libAfterImage.a] Error 2
lori@lori-Veriton-M4620G:~/root$

I’ve tried make and sudo make install just in case, but both methods show this message. Is there something wrong with my environment here?

Cheers,
Lori

2

Hi Lori,

did you install the freetype development pakage?
You can check this on ubuntu with dpkg --get-selections | grep freetype

Cheers,
Danilo

3

Here’s what I got:

lori@lori-Veriton-M4620G:~$ dpkg --get-selections | grep freetype libfreetype6:amd64 install libfreetype6-dev install lori@lori-Veriton-M4620G:~$

So I have 2 freetype libraries. Am I missing a library?

Cheers,
Lori

4

Why don’t you simply type “freetype” in the “Search…” field of this forum and then press the “Search” button?

5

facepalm Right.

Found a similar thread and made the freetype adjustment in graf2d/asimage/src/libAfterImage/asfont.c and now it compiles.

“Unable to compile ROOT because of freetype2 error”

Cheers,
Lori

6

Hi,

This is fixed in the current tip of the v5-34-00-patches branch (and ROOT 6). We will release a new v5.34 patch release soon.

Cheers, Axel