Unable to find the /icons directory for *.xpm files

[laudo]

Hello, and thanks for your reply,

@cholm

Laudo, first of all, I’ve never seen this problem with the pre-compiled Debian GNU/Linux builds - not on Debian i386 and amd64, nor have I heard any complaints from hppa, mips, and mipsel users. Of course, these are all ‘sid’ users, but I haven’t heard anything from ‘etch’ or ‘lenny’ users either.

That’s right. I did not have this problem with the pre-compiled root. However, I was unable to use Threads in my GUI application, so I decided to try and build root from source.

@cholm

Ilka suggested you install from the BNL repository - have you tried that? What was the result? If you did mention it previously in this thread, I must be dense, as I couldn’t make out if you had or if it worked.

See above: I did not have the problem of finding /icons directory and *.xpm files until l started using root (5.14) built from source.

@cholm

Do you need a built from source? The Debian package set is pretty complete, but of course, if you have a BOFH that won’t install ROOT - sic - then you need to do it yourself.

We are preparing applications that should run in different machines, with different linuxes. So we would rather not to be constrained to do the development with pre-compiled Debian.

@cholm

My suggestion would be, to compile ROOT with debugging enabled, run ROOT via GDB and break in the member function that reports the error. Then step through the code and see where it fails. It could be deep. It has to be somebody that has the problem that does this - as it won’t tell you much if you don’t have the problem, so I hope you can take the time to do it (a rebuild of ROOT and 1/2 - 1 hour work). Send the result of the analysis (possibly including backtraces) to rootdev.

OK, I will try this and let you know the result.

        Regards,

                      Laudo.

[laudo]

Dear Christian and Ilka,

   Here is how I finally managed to solve the problem, after talking to a colleague who had already been through it [it was actually not necessary to follow the steps that you suggested]:

    - I installed the packages "libafterimage0" and "libafterimage-dev" to Debian, using the Synaptic Package Manager. 

    After that I could return to the point where I was before, when I built root from source to introduce Threads in an application.

    Thank you very much for your unvaluable attention. If you don't have any other comments to add I could close this post.

           Kind regards,


                           Laudo.