[omniORB] omniORB 2.5.0 and shared application libraries

[Tim Barbour]

It turned out that we were producing our shared libraries in a lame way - using ld
instead of CC.
Now that we use CC to link shared libraries, the problem has gone.

Sorry to waste your time.

Sai-Lai Lo wrote:

> Despite of what Sun has said (or not said) about the compatiability of
> Solaris 2.5 and 2.6 binaries, we found that using Solaris 2.5 binaries (may
> be just the shared libraries) on Solaris 2.6 is problematic.
>
> I recommend you recompile the omniORB distribution native on Solaris 2.6.
> Or better just download the new omniORB 2.6.0 binaries for Solaris 2.6.
>
> Regards,
>
> Sai-Lai
>
> >>>>> Tim Barbour writes:
>
> > Is there any known problem with omniORB 2.5.0 developing applications
> > that use shared libraries ? Is omniORB2 generally known to work with
> > applications that contain shared libraries ?
>
> > We have several applications that run fine with static libraries.
> > Recently (very recently) we tried building them with shared libraries.
> > The resulting applications run, but when the client calls an operation
> > on the remote server interface, a CORBA::SystemException is thrown
> > (apparently in the client). The details are:
>
> > completed()=1
> > minor()=0
> > NP_RepositoryId()=IDL:omg.org/CORBA/BAD_OPERATION
>
> > We are using SunOS 5.6, Sun CC 4.2 and the ORL pre-compiled (for SunOS
> > 5.5) omniORB 2.5.0 binary. Is it okay to use this omniORB binary with
> > SunOS 5.6 ?
>
> > Maybe we have done something lame with the compiler flags for the shared
> > libraries, but it's odd that the problem occurs just when invoking a
> > CORBA operation.
>
> --
> Dr. Sai-Lai Lo                          |       Research Scientist
>                                         |
> E-mail:         S.Lo@orl.co.uk          |       Olivetti & Oracle Research Lab
>                                         |       24a Trumpington Street
> Tel:            +44 223 343000          |       Cambridge CB2 1QA
> Fax:            +44 223 313542          |       ENGLAND