ROOT Update Ticket

[Aljaž Srebrnič]

On 15/gen/2013, at 21:18, Chris Jones <jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> 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:
>> 
>> 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 ?

Pah, go figure! I just now successfully compiled with default variants. Will re-test with old variants, and if it checks out I'll commit it right away :)

>> 
>> 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…

Let's hope, I was super hyped when I read the announcement!

> 
> cheers Chris
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