[omniORB] [bounce retry] Help !!!

[Visscher, Bruce]

Boris,

According to the VMS documentation, the DECthreads library that you will want to use on OpenVMS 7.1 is sys$library:pthread$rtl.exe
(you will need to change [.mk.platforms]openvms_alpha_7_2,opt and [.mk.platforms]openvms_alpha_7_2.mms).

Bruce

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Bruce Visscher [SMTP:bvisscher@mindspring.com]
> Sent:	Sunday, June 14, 1998 11:04 PM
> To:	Boris Khanales
> Cc:	omniorb-list@cam-orl.co.uk
> Subject:	Re: [omniORB] [bounce retry] Help !!!
> 
> Sorry for the slow response.
> 
> Boris Khanales wrote:
> > 
> > I'm trying to compile OMNI ORB on DEC Alpha OpenVMS 7.1
> > 
> > Did anybody try it?
> > 
> 
> Yes, someone in Germany did this and reports no problems.  I don't have
> access to a 7.1 system, so I haven't tried this myself.
> 
> > Right now I have an error "Can not open file lex_yy.cc".
> 
> Look for a file called lex.yy_cc or something like that.  The MMS
> initialization procedure should have renamed it.  If not, you can rename
> it yourself.  The problem is that VMS can't handle file names with more
> than one dot ('.').  Different utilities use various schemes to get
> around this.  There are 2 or 3 others like that.   I think VMS 7.2 is
> supposed to fix this.
> 
> > I also did not find files for the version 7.1. We've just
> > copied files .MMS & .OPT.
> 
> You should change the Posix thread draft version macro
> (PthreadDraftVersion?) to 10 from 4.  Also, you need to change the
> DECthreads library (currently set to sys$library:cma$open_rtl).  I'll
> e-mail you the name of the library from work (I'm writing this at home)
> or you can look it up in the DECthreads documentation.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Bruce