On 8/14/05, Christian Holm Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To me, it's not entirely clear just what licence cover use of Minuit. > As you know, CERNLIB has in the past re-licensed software rather > brutally. Checking with Ian McLaren is probably not a bad idea. If you > get a reply, please forward that to me and perhaps Fons too.
Sure, will do. > The buildd point is _very_ attractive to ROOT. > > This reminds me of another issue concerning ROOT. Currently, I've only > tested the ROOT packaging scripts on Debian GNU/Linux on a i386 chip. > I've previously ported ROOT to Debian GNU/Hurd, but I haven't tried it > in a while. However, ROOT build on many a platforms, including ia64, > Sparc, Alpha, and so on. However, it is assumed that if you are > building for say a Sparc chip, you're using Solaris, and so forth. It'd > be interesting to see what chips ROOT build on, assuming the normal > `linux' configuration. If anyone out there's using some `port' other > than GNU/Linux on i386, of Debian, could you please give it a whirl to > see if it works? Thanks. For what it's worth, I compiled ROOT on my iBook (powerpc chip) running Debian a while back. I believe this was version 3.04/02. I had to pass the "linuxppcegcs" argument as the architecture to ./configure. As far as I was able to tell everything worked, and I used ROOT fairly often on that machine. Since my laptop hard drive died (for the second time!) a couple months ago, I am no longer able to test things on powerpc Linux, though. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/ Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544
