ROOT5.10 on MacBook (Mac OS X 10.4.6)

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Dear all,

I am using binaries of ROOT for earlier version of MacOS, and I got many errors during compilation of a complicated problem such as:

/Users/maggielee/root/include/TString.h:267: error: ‘TString& TString::operator+=(Long64_t)’ and ‘TString& TString::operator+=(Long_t)’ cannot be overloaded

This is one of the errors. However when I tried writing a simple c++ program to plot a history with ROOT, everything works properly. Can this be due to the problem of different version of gcc compiler? What should I do? Should I install ROOT from source?

Maggie

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oh, typo: “histogram”, not "history"
sorry about that

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Could you try with the pro version 5.12. If the problem persists, send a short running script reproducing your problem.

Rene

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Dear Rene,

Thank you for your reply!
The program I am trying to compile needs ROOT5.10. When I changed to ROOT5.12, it says:

No rule to make target: ‘/Users/maggielee/root/include/TCache.h’, needed by ‘/Users/maggielee/geant4.7.0.p01/tmp/Darwin-g++/dyw/exe/dyw.d’. Stop.

Is there any other way to solve the problem?

Maggie

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You seem to have a problem with dependencies in your Makefile.
Could you delete all the *.d files that generate this error message?

Rene

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Dear Rene,

After I deleted the .d files (changed to ROOT5.12 already), it shows the same error messages as ROOT5.10 did, such as:

/Users/maggielee/root/include/TString.h: In member function ‘TString& TString::operator+=(Long_t)’:
/Users/maggielee/root/include/TString.h:480: error: ‘l’ was not declared in this scope

I am really confused now…
What should I do?

Maggie

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Could you send the shortest possible setup reproducing the problem?

Rene

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Dear Rene,

I am sorry that I cannot provide a simplified program since the program was developed by a group of people and I do not have the right to publish it on the web. I am sorry about that.

I have been trying ROOT5.10 (for MacOSX Intel PowerPC 10.4.5 gcc4.0.1) and ROOT5.12(for MacOSX 10.4.7 gcc4.0.1) binaries but both do not work and show the error I described in the previous post. However, there was no problem during compilation on Scientific Linux (with ROOT5.10). I don’t know if it is due to the difference in CPU architecture.

Is there any solution to my problem?

Maggie

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Maggie,

You should provide the strict minimum to un derstand what
is the problem

Rene