People, While waiting for someone to come to my rescue, I tried to do what I could to make the installation of everything as standard as possible, and installed root as su by doing the following: /home/jnorris/brahms/root> ./configure linuxppcegcs --prefix=/usr/local --enable-soversion /home/jnorris/brahms/root> gmake /home/jnorris/brahms/root> gmake install and this seems to have worked and root 3.03/06 runs beautifully. (Now I sould probably say, http://root.cern.ch/root/Install.html says: It's strongly recommended to enable version numbers in sonames (if possible) using this method (see --enable-soversion below). Also, using the --enable-rpath option to "configure" you can set the load path to the ROOT libraries on the applications. However, this is not recommended if you have soome other way (like /etc/ld.so.conf) of making the dynamic loader aware of where you installed the ROOT libraries. Of course, the bums don't hyperlink to the --enable-soversion - it strikes me as quite strange the that the guys who claim to have invented the internet don't seem to know how to use it very well! - and I'm not sure I understand what it is trying to tell me to do: soversion Include the major version number of ROOT in the soname of the shared libraries. This means that you'll have an additional check on whether your applications are linked to the proper runtime libraries. It's strongly encouraged to use this option. This options is only supported on some platforms. Default is false. I hope I did the right thing! I have already modified my /etc/ld.so.conf to read: usr/X11R6/lib /usr/kerberos/lib /usr/lib/qt-2.2.1/lib /usr/lib/qt-1.45/lib /opt/kde2/lib /opt/kde/lib /home/jnorris/brahms/root/lib .) So I tried to install brat again: home/jnorris/brahms/brat> aclocal -I config ; automake -a ; autoconf home/jnorris/brahms/brat> ./configure linuxppcegcs --prefix=/usr/local --enable-rpath home/jnorris/brahms/brat> gmake ; gmake install but got the same error message: cannot find -MySQL Should I just go out back and shoot myself? Have a care, James Norris -------------------------------------------------------------------------- University of Kansas email: jnorris@ku.edu Dept of Physics & Astronomy Phone: 785-864-4889 Malott Hall Rm#B008 Lawrence KS 66045 FAX: 785-864-5262 Home Address: 810 Ash St Wamego KS 66547 Home Phone: 785-456-7059 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | WWW Homepage: http://www.people.ku.edu/~jnorris/ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Perhaps we are the first to talk and think and build and aspire, but | | we may not be the last. Others may follow us in this adventure... | | We owe it to that possible future to let their potential survive. | ---------------------------| David Brin |----------------------------
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