Prob after installing root on mac

ROOT
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Hi,

After downloading root root_v5.25.02.source.tar.gz from the website and installing it without problem on a mac os 10.5.8, I cannot make it run properly… The error I have when launching it is the following :

root [0] TBrowser a
dlopen error: dlopen(/Applications/root/lib/libASImage.so, 9): Symbol not found: _alphablend_scanlines
Referenced from: /Applications/root/lib/libASImage.so
Expected in: dynamic lookup

Load Error: Failed to load Dynamic link library /Applications/root/lib/libASImage.so
Error in TCint::AutoLoad: failure loading library libASImage.so for class TASImage
Error in TPluginHandler::SetupCallEnv: class TASImage not found in plugin ASImage
Error in TGComboBox::TGComboBox: arrow_down.xpm not found
Error in TGVScrollBar::TGVScrollBar: arrow_*.xpm not found

I also tried :
root [1] TCanvas t = new TCanvas();
dlopen error: dlopen(/Applications/root/lib/libASImage.so, 9): Symbol not found: _alphablend_scanlines
Referenced from: /Applications/root/lib/libASImage.so
Expected in: dynamic lookup

Load Error: Failed to load Dynamic link library /Applications/root/lib/libASImage.so
Error in TGHScrollBar::TGHScrollBar: arrow_.xpm not found
Error in TGVScrollBar::TGVScrollBar: arrow_.xpm not found

*** Break *** segmentation violation

Does anyone know how I could solve this ?

thanks for your help,

Catherine

2

Hi Catherine,

Looks like Root is using the wrong libAfterImage, or that libAfterImage is corrupted… How did you configure root (which options)?
Could you verify that $(ROOTSYS)/lib/libAfterImage.a exists?

Cheers, Bertrand.

3

Hi Bertrand,

Thanks for your suggestions.

I did not use any option when I configured, just :
./configure
make

Should I have used options ?

I verified and $(ROOTSYS)/lib/libAfterImage.a is there…

Catherine

4

Hi Catherine,

did you really install in the /Applications directory? Do you have ROOTSYS defined? Did you just do:

./configure
make

(and not “make install”)

Cheers, Fons.

5

Hi Fons,

Yes I have installed root here :
/Applications/root

and set the rootsys environment to :

setenv ROOTSYS /Applications/root

then just did

./configure
make

tryed

root

and got

ftuser% root
rootx xpm error: XpmColorFailed

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ROOT 5.25/02 (trunk@30530, Sep 29 2009, 15:28:19 on macosx64)

CINT/ROOT C/C++ Interpreter version 5.17.00, Dec 21, 2008
Type ? for help. Commands must be C++ statements.
Enclose multiple statements between { }.
root [0] TBrowser a
dlopen error: dlopen(/Applications/root/lib/libASImage.so, 9): Symbol not found: _alphablend_scanlines
Referenced from: /Applications/root/lib/libASImage.so
Expected in: dynamic lookup

Load Error: Failed to load Dynamic link library /Applications/root/lib/libASImage.so
Error in TCint::AutoLoad: failure loading library libASImage.so for class TASImage
Error in TPluginHandler::SetupCallEnv: class TASImage not found in plugin ASImage
Error in TGComboBox::TGComboBox: arrow_down.xpm not found
Error in TGVScrollBar::TGVScrollBar: arrow_*.xpm not found
*** Break *** segmentation violation

Thread 1 (process 31368 thread 0x10b):
#0 0x00007fff80413378 in wait4 ()
#1 0x00007fff8042fdbb in system ()
#2 0x00000001000ced19 in TUnixSystem::StackTrace ()
#3 0x00000001000cd09d in TUnixSystem::DispatchSignals ()
#4 0x00007fff804123fa in _sigtramp ()
#5 0x5800000000000080 in ?? ()
#6 0x0000000100000000 in ?? ()

:frowning:

Other ideas ?

Thanks for your help,

Catherine

6

Could you please try to install in your home directory and add $ROOTSYS/bin to your path.

Cheers, Fons.

7

Hi Fons,

I’ve tried that, and followed the README again.
It worked !

I am not sure it is because of the installation location but it may be that I had forgotten to set all the environment variables previously :frowning:

  sh family:
    export PATH=$ROOTSYS/bin:$PATH
    export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ROOTSYS/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
    export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ROOTSYS/lib:$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH (MacOS X only)
  csh family:
    setenv PATH ${ROOTSYS}/bin:${PATH}
    setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH ${ROOTSYS}/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}
    setenv DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH ${ROOTSYS}/lib:${DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH} (MacOS X)
    rehash

since I think I can reproduce my error with and without those…

Thanks a lot for you help !!

Catherine

8

Hi Catherine,

good to hear it works. In principle ROOT should work on the Mac without setting ROOTSYS and adding it to (DY)LD_LIBRARY_PATH as we use -rpath during linking of all the libs and executables (you only need to add ~/root/bin to your PATH). I don’t know what could have gone wrong the first time in the Applications directory. Enjoy.

Cheers, Fons.