The patch modifies the calling interface for file: geant4.7.1/source/processes/hadronic/management/src/G4HadronicProcess.cc by ading a 'type' parameter. This parameter is not supported by functions like: G4HadronCaptureProcess::G4HadronCaptureProcess which call G4HadronicProcess with only a process parameter. Uding the plists, linking now gives errors like: ./usr/local/cern/GEANT4/lib/geant4/Linux-g++/libG4hadronic_proc.a(G4HadronCaptureProcess.o)(.text+0x1d): In function `G4HadronCaptureProcess::G4HadronCaptureProcess(G4String const&)': : undefined reference to `G4HadronicProcess::G4HadronicProcess(G4String const&)' /usr/local/cern/GEANT4/lib/geant4/Linux-g++/libG4hadronic_proc.a(G4HadronCaptureProcess.o)(.text+0xdd): In function `G4HadronCaptureProcess::G4HadronCaptureProcess(G4String const&)': : undefined reference to `G4HadronicProcess::G4HadronicProcess(G4String const&)' /usr/local/cern/GEANT4/lib/geant4/Linux-g++/libG4hadronic_proc.a(G4HadronElasticProcess.o)(.text+0x1d): In function `G4HadronElasticProcess::G4HadronElasticProcess(G4String const&)': : undefined reference to `G4HadronicProcess::G4HadronicProcess(G4String const&)' /usr/local/cern/GEANT4/lib/geant4/Linux-g++/libG4hadronic_proc.a(G4HadronElasticProcess.o)(.text+0xdd): In function `G4HadronElasticProcess::G4HadronElasticProcess(G4String const&)': : undefined reference to `G4HadronicProcess::G4HadronicProcess(G4String const&)' /usr/local/cern/GEANT4/lib/geant4/Linux-g++/libG4hadronic_proc.a(G4HadronFissionProcess.o)(.text+0x1d): In function `G4HadronFissionProcess::G4HadronFissionProcess(G4String const&)': : undefined reference to `G4HadronicProcess::G4HadronicProcess(G4String const&)' /usr/local/cern/GEANT4/lib/geant4/Linux-g++/libG4hadronic_proc.a(G4HadronFissionProcess.o)(.text+0xdd): more undefined references to`G4HadronicProcess::G4HadronicProcess(G4String const&)' follow
The patch has been loaded over the existing 4.7.1 distribution.
The patch has been loaded over the existing 4.7.1 distribution. When using the updated/patched total distribution the problem does not occur. Maybe some files are missing in the patch file.
No calling interfaces changes are introduced inside patches. The change you're referring to is a real fix, filling the generic ID for hadronic processes, as reported in bug report #744. I verified that the patch applied to 7.1 works fine (using the physics lists distributed with the Geant4 source code) and could not reproduce the linking problem reported here. Let me point out that you need to -recompile- the Geant4 libraries (and physics lists) from scratch once applied the patch to the source code.
