Re: ROOT as A replacement for gnuplot
On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 09:55:17PM +0200, Thomas Walter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 15:23, Christian Holm Christensen wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 21:28 -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
> > > On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 09:23:28PM +0200, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote:
> > > > An official package would be nice, now. Anyone available to sponsor and reviewing?
> > > I was about to buzz my regular sponsor and decided to check packages
> > > first. I've grabbed random couple of packages, ran lintian on it.
> > > Results are:
> > That's a problem in the ROOT build system right now. Somehow, some of
> > the developers of ROOT does not understand that to make a real shared
> > library, you need `-fPIC' for GCC. The build system of ROOT is an ugly
> > hack, which works most of the time though - but it's a hack. I'll
> > complain upstream.
> Do I understand the source correct,
> ROOT comes with a copy of 'cint'.
> Is this necessary or can it use an existing 'cint'?
> Would reduce the source by ~15% and also the configure/compile effort.
What is cint? I can't find it in debian/main. If it is available
there, and root can make use of it, then it should use that copy
(potentially smaller root source tarball, less build time, bug fixes +
security updates + general aethetic appeal). If it *could* be useful
to other packages, then root maintainers should consider packaging it
separately (if root uses a pristine copy).
--
Clear skies,
Justin
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