ROOT 6.26/00 segmentation violation

[Grufoony]

ROOT Version: 6.26/00
Platform: WSL for windows 10 (ubuntu 20.04)
Compiler: cmake

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When I try to install ROOT from source code with cmake it gives segmentation violation at 98%.
This only occurs with version 6.26/00 while 6.24/06 works fine.
Here i report the latest lines from the terminal:

[ 98%] Built target GenVector
[ 98%] Generating ../ginclude/rootCommandLineOptionsHelp.h
Scanning dependencies of target root
[ 98%] Building CXX object rootx/CMakeFiles/root.dir/src/rootx.cxx.o
[ 98%] Building CXX object rootx/CMakeFiles/root.dir/src/rootxx.cxx.o
[ 98%] Building C object rootx/CMakeFiles/root.dir/__/core/clib/src/strlcpy.c.o
[ 98%] Linking CXX executable ../bin/root
[ 98%] Built target root
Scanning dependencies of target modules_idx
[ 98%] Generating lib/modules.idx

 *** Break *** segmentation violation
 Generating stack trace...
Segmentation fault
make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/modules_idx.dir/build.make:169: lib/modules.idx] Error 139
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:8953: CMakeFiles/modules_idx.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:152: all] Error 2

[bellenot]

Do you really need to build from source? Why don’t you take a binary distribution?

[Grufoony]

Even with the binary distribution i get the same error (segmentation violation)

~$ root

 *** Break *** segmentation violation
 Generating stack trace...

[gorsedh]

Hi Grufoony,

Have you tried calling the installation directory as “root” and not as “.root”?
(using the binary distribution)