ROOT Update Ticket

[Chris Jones]

Hi,

On 15 Jan 2013, at 8:01pm, Aljaž Srebrnič <g5pw at macports.org> wrote:

> On 15/gen/2013, at 20:55, Chris Jones <jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On 15 Jan 2013, at 7:46pm, Aljaž Srebrnič <g5pw at macports.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 15/gen/2013, at 20:45, Chris Jones <jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> OK… so is that all of them ;)
>>> 
>>> When I build, I build all-in ;)
>> 
>> Fair enough in general. ROOT though has a hell of a lot of variants, and some are provide as is, in that I know they give troubles in some cases but I keep them neverless. qt4_mac is one in particular. It has never worked that well for me, and I tried to remove it a while back, but added it back when I found some users actually found it OK….
> 
> Yeah, honestly I don't even remember why I enabled all of them. :D I enabled qt4_mac to test it out, so I wouldn't have x11 start up all the time…

Yeah… that doesn't quite work as expected - you still use the X11 backend even with qt4_mac support (go figure… partly why I don't really place much hold in this variant). The cocoa variant on the other hand is newer and gives real native OSX GUI support, and does work well for me. X11 is really not used (although again for perverse reasons the build/install dependency is still there at the moment. Hopefully will be fixed some time …).

I cannot though reproduce your failure. The variant combination

macmini ~ > sudo port install root +avahi +cocoa +fftw3 +fitsio +mysql55 +postgresql92 +pythia +python32 +qt_mac +ruby +clang31

giving 

> -->  Activating root @5.34.04_0+avahi+clang31+cocoa+fftw3+fitsio+graphviz+gsl+minuit2+mysql55+opengl+postgresql92+pythia+python32+qt_mac+roofit+ruby+soversion+ssl+tmva+xml

just worked find for me….

Can you reproduce the failure you had ?

>> I will test things myself. My bet is it is one of cocoa, clang31 or qt4_mac that is causing the issue…
> 
> I really hope +cocoa works! By the way, do you know when will be added the support for cling?

cocoa works fine for me….

I also am keen to get cling working, but this is still very very experimental and I haven't managed it yet. I test the variant each time but so far it still fails …. I suspect this may not be a viable alternative until ROOT 6 is released, but we can hope...

cheers Chris

> 
>> 
>> Chris
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>>>> 
>>>> I'll try myself, as I may not have tried that particular combinations of variants ….
>>>> 
>>>> cheers Chris
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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>>> Aljaž Srebrnič a.k.a g5pw
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> Aljaž Srebrnič a.k.a g5pw
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