I had to build ROOT in a new system earlier, and as usual I do that twice; one for 6 and another for 5 (you always need those ancient scripts when you least expect it). The OS in question was Ubuntu 18.04.
6.14/04 went without a hitch, while 5.34/36… not so much. One step or the other the build failed. After digging around some apparently 5.34/38 exists [1], so I tried that and ok, the build went fine.
Now my question is why is it not advertised in [2]? Just an oversight or is there some reason why the devs don’t want people to be picking it up?
[1] https://root.cern.ch/root-version-v5-34-00-patch-release-notes
[2] https://root.cern.ch/releases