[Bioc-devel] xps build problem on veracruz2

[Hervé Pagès]

On 03/23/2017 11:09 AM, cstrato wrote:
> Dear Herve,
>
> Thank you for your explanation.
>
> The reason that xps does not work with ROOT 6 is that I have tried it
> but there seem to be so many changes, that I did not succeed.
> Since for xps there is no advantage using ROOT 6 vs ROOT 5, and ROOT 5
> was still supported, I have decided to stay with ROOT 5.

OK

>
> BTW, I have also one question:
> Why did you decide to set up a new Mac with El Capitan instead of using
> the newest OS Sierra? (I have the impression that most Mac users are
> either happy to stay with their old OS or they upgrade to the newest one.)

Same reason as for the choice of compilers: that's what the R folks
decided to use for producing the Mac binaries of R and CRAN packages.
We're just following their lead on that.

Cheers,
H.

>
> Best regards,
> Christian
>
>
> On 03/23/17 17:47, Hervé Pagès wrote:
>> Hi Christian,
>>
>> The CRAN folks are currently experimenting with clang 4.0.0 for
>> producing the Mac binaries of R and CRAN packages so we are using
>> the same on veracruz2. This is a version of clang that is ahead of
>> what's in XCode 8.x or XCode 7.x. So I guess that means we'll have
>> to compile ROOT from source on veracruz2.
>>
>> BTW any reason not to make xps work with ROOT 6?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> H.
>>
>> On 03/23/2017 07:28 AM, cstrato wrote:
>>> Dear Valerie,
>>>
>>> I have seen that you have set up a new Mac server, veracruz2, running El
>>> Capitan.
>>>
>>> Although the development version of xps does even run on Mac OS Sierra,
>>> one issue still remains the same:
>>>
>>> You need to install the latest ROOT version 5, since xps does not run
>>> with ROOT 6!
>>>
>>> So you need to install on veracruz2 the same root version that you have
>>> installed on toluca2 running Maverics, i.e.
>>> root_v5.34.36.macosx64-10.11-clang70.dmg
>>>
>>> However, if you have installed on El Capitan XCode 8.x instead of XCode
>>> 7.x, then you need to compile ROOT from source, i.e.:
>>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__root.cern.ch_download_root-5Fv5.34.36.source.tar.gz&d=DwICAg&c=eRAMFD45gAfqt84VtBcfhQ&r=BK7q3XeAvimeWdGbWY_wJYbW0WYiZvSXAJJKaaPhzWA&m=q9mk6yIytaNZlSdiLX_dFwchX8Tb7ra6x3WBBNIcs2o&s=Lz7YkqZ3XwjRsYIXVTbSvbDvTM-jTyoWvoVSa1PdBDw&e=
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The README file of xps does explain how to compile ROOT for Sierra. This
>>> should also be valid for El Capitan running XCode 8.x.
>>>
>>> Thank you in advance.
>>> Best regards,
>>> Christian
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