Rootcint and ROOTSYS

ROOT
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Hello!

I have a problem with rootcint. I recently upgraded ROOT to version 5.17.04 and now I get a strange error. I installed ROOT with

./configure --prefix=/usr ... make make install

It works fine. But when I use rootcint to generate dictionaries for my classes I get the following:

rootcint -f viewerDict.cpp -c viewer.h viewerLinkDef.h Warning: environment variable ROOTSYS is not set. Standard include files ignored Error: cannot open file "typeinfo" /usr/include/root/Rtypeinfo.h:33: Error: cannot open file "stdio.h" /usr/include/root/Rtypes.h:34: Error: Symbol type_info is not defined in current scope /usr/include/root/TGenericClassInfo.h:33: Error: Symbol fInfo is not defined in current scope /usr/include/root/TGenericClassInfo.h:33: Error: cannot open file "iosfwd" /usr/include/root/Riosfwd.h:34: Error: cannot open file "stdarg.h" /usr/include/root/TObject.h:43: Syntax error /usr/include/root/TObject.h:148: Error: cannot open file "stdarg.h" /usr/include/root/TString.h:44: Error: cannot open file "string" /usr/include/root/TString.h:45: Syntax error /usr/include/root/TString.h:355: Syntax error /usr/include/root/TString.h:356: Syntax error /usr/include/root/TString.h:358: Syntax error /usr/include/root/TString.h:359: Syntax error /usr/include/root/TString.h:360: Error: cannot open file "stdarg.h" /usr/include/root/Varargs.h:16: Warning: Error occurred during reading source files Warning: Error occurred during dictionary source generation !!!Removing viewerDict.cpp viewerDict.h !!! Error: rootcint: error loading headers...

I always thought that I don’t have to set ROOTSYS if I choose that installation method. And why does rootcint ignore the standard include files without it? Does this make any sense?
I know that it did work before. And I think even with version 5.17.02. I did not change anything else since then.

Has anyone an idea?

Thanks in advance,
Sebastian

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Hi,

I cannot reproduce that. Could it be that you re-configured and didn’t run make distclean afterwards? Many changes due to a new configuration will not be picked up by the build system, leaving you with files that were compiled without prefix.

Cheers, Axel.

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Hi,
I use 5.19.04 root and tried to compile Christian’s framework at http://cholm.web.cern.ch/cholm/root/#framework.

And I had the same problem. For example, I got the following error message.

I hope you can replicate my problems and give me some hints how to fix them. Thank you, Alex.

gma

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Pls move my post. My problem is that Ubuntu put c++ headers into a separate folder, so make did not work. I fixed it now.

gma

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Uh, good to hear - thanks for updating this post! So what exactly did you need to do?
Cheers, Axel.

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No really… what did you have to do to fix it. Which headers did you have to move around?

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I get the same error messages as gma when using rootcint. I am running ubuntu 8.10 with gcc 4.3. Any help?

Cheers
Bastian

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Hi. I’m having this problem with ROOT v5.27.04 and with Ubuntu 10.

What’s the solution?

Adam

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ps - I have this problem with gcc version 4.4.3 on Ubuntu with root 5.27.04. However, my code compiles and runs fine under Mac OS 10.6.4 gcc version 4.2.1, and root v5.26.00b.
I’m currently installing v5.26.00d on Ubuntu to see if that makes a difference. I’ll let you know if it does.

Adam

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Hi,

is your rootcint being invoked with

-I/usr/include

? If so, remove that part =)

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excellent! thank you.

Adam

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By the way, this should be a bug. I’d be happy if it would be fixed, because it caused some problems in automatically generated Makefiles for me. Anyone? :slight_smile:

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Hi,

Can you (re)provide a running example of this problem. Adding -I/usr/include even to g++ is usually a mistake since either it already has it (because it is one of its default) or should use a different directory (because the header are at an odd place but still g++ will know where) ; either it sounds that the automatic makefile generator might be wrong.

Cheers,
Philippe.