use option -f to force overwriting your existing dictionary file:
rootcint -f dict.C -c file.h ....
Cheers, Fons.
Robert Casties wrote:
>
> Besides, why does rootcint always complain and stop if it's outputfile
> already exists? Is that some what convenient bahaviour? I found it rather
> unhandsome since if there's an error rootcint produces an (corrupted)
> outputfile which has to be deleted before it can run again.
>
> Cheers
> Robert
>
> P.S. it's fun to see the old fortran libraries run in an interpreter :-)
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