[gate-users] Successful compile for Knoppix

[Robert Barnett]

I managed to sucessfully compile using Knoppix. Knoppix is modification 
of Debian such that the entire OS can be launched from a bootable CD. 
I've set up a user home directory on a NFS drive and will store most 
data there. It will be interesting to see how much overhead I will 
experience using Gate over a NFS and launching the OS from CD.

After looking through Anglea's notes on building for Debian, I'm pleased 
to say that I was able to compile gate as a user-mode program in Knoppix.

Angela's notes say to use something other than "./Configure -install" 
for geant4. But I only managed a successful compile using "./Configure 
-install"

The "make clean" routine in gate is a bit nasty. Gate's "make clean" 
will attempt to compile everything and then clean it all up. This was a 
nussiance, expecially because I was compiling rather slowly over NFS.

I had difficulties with linking CLHEP. I haven't checked how common this 
problem is, but it wasn't too hard to fix.

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   GateVObjectCreator::AttachPhantomSD()' used but never defined
Compiling GateVoxelReplicaMatrixInserterMessenger.cc ...
Creating/replacing object files in 
/home/knoppix/geant4/tmp/Linux-g++/Gate/libGate.a
ar: creating /home/knoppix/geant4/tmp/Linux-g++/Gate/libGate.a
Compiling Gate.cc ...
Using granular libraries ...
Linking Gate ...
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lCLHEP
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [/home/knoppix/geant4/bin/Linux-g++/Gate] Error 1
%
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I managed to fix this error by altering env.csh in the geant4 directory. 
Note that this is after I have already compiled geant4

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Changes to env.csh
# modified by robbie - only for gate
setenv CLHEP_LIB "CLHEP-g++.1.8.0.0"
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I'm currently running benchmark PET without the GUI. I haven't tested OpenGL yet.


Versions:
G4EMLOW2.3
G4NDL3.7
gate_v1.0.2
geant4.5.2.p02
CLHEP 1.8.0.0
PhotonEvaporation.2.0
RadiativeDecay.3.0
root_v4.00.08f


Merry Christmas to everyone.

P.S. Hopefully Gate will have a present for me. Perhaps it will leave a 
lovely ROOT file underneath the christmas tree c/o benchmarkPET.

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nrb@ 
Robbie Barnett
imag 
Research Assistant
wsahs 
Nuclear Medicine & Ultrasound
nsw 
Westmead Hospital
gov 
Sydney Australia
au 
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