Path problem for root-6.14 demos

[shamblin]

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ROOT Version: 6.14.00
Platform: Ubuntu 18.04
Compiler: ccmake gcc-7.3.0

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I have just compiled root 6.14 from source without any errors. It opens fine but when I try to run the demos it cannot find the path to the tutorials.
They are actually located in
/usr/local/doc/root/tutorials
But as you can see from the error below root is searching /usr/localdoc missing “/” between local and doc.
Does anyone know how I can fix this or is this a known error or have I missed something during the compile process?
Thanks.

root [0] .demo
root [1] Error in <TApplication::ExecuteFile>: macro demoshelp.C not found in path .:/usr/local/./root/macros:/usr/localdoc/root/tutorials/

[bellenot]

Hi,

No idea… I’ll investigate next week, but it might take some time, since I’ll need to set-up a virtual machine (I’m working on Windows), and try to reproduce the issue. Stay tuned!

Cheers, Bertrand.

[bellenot]

Hi,

Could you post here the output of those command in a ROOT session?

gROOT->GetRootSys()
gROOT->GetTutorialsDir()
gROOT->GetDataDir()
gROOT->GetDocDir()
gROOT->GetTutorialsDir()

Cheers, Bertrand.

[shamblin]

Thank you for looking into this Bertrand.
Here is the output:

root [0] gROOT->GetRootSys()
(const TString &) "/usr/local"[10]
root [1] gROOT->GetTutorialsDir()
(const char *) "/usr/local/./doc/root/tutorials"
root [2] gROOT->GetDataDir()
(const TString &) "/usr/local/./root"[17]
root [3] gROOT->GetDocDir()
(const TString &) "/usr/local/./doc/root"[21]
root [4] gROOT->GetTutorialsDir()
(const char *) "/usr/local/./doc/root/tutorials"

[bellenot]

OK, thanks. I’m a bit confused, but I’ll try to reproduce it nevertheless…

Cheers, Bertrand.

[bellenot]

I cannot reproduce it… Can I ask you how you configured and installed ROOT? What CMAKE_PREFIX did you specify (if any)?

[shamblin]

mkdir ~/build-root
cd ~/build-root
cmake -G “Unix Makefiles” -Dbuiltin_xrootd=ON -Dcxx17=ON -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/usr/local -Dgnuinstall=ON ~/root-6.14.00

sudo cmake --build . --target install – -j4

[bellenot]

Thanks. I tried (with the master) and cannot reproduce the problem. Will try again with 6.14 and let you know

[shamblin]

Thanks for all the help Bertrand.
Maybe I’ll try installing again.

[shamblin]

Just removed root and ran make again.
All is working perfectly.

Actually, I did notice that I had installed it using checkinstall the first time. I bet that is what messed things up.
The original command that I ran was:

sudo checkinstall -D --backup=no cmake --build . --target install – -j4

Hopefully this might help someone else if they run into the same problem.
Thanks for all your help.