[omniORB] Using SunPro Workshop 5.0 (yet again)

[Sai-Lai Lo]

I'm using Sun C++ 5.0 with the latest (August) patch. The link error you
have will go away if you use -g. 

omniORB 2.8.0pre2 has been tested with that compiler. As I've written in the
readme notes in the distribution, as long as you use -g (and even -O2), it
seems to work OK. Without -g or with just -O2, the binaries core dump.

I still have some doubts about the binaries produced by -O2. So if you see
your omniORB applications crashing, try just to use -g. 

All in all, I still can't trust the compiler for production use. It may
just be a small compiler bug but it is very difficult and time consuming to
isolate  a small test case to submit a bug report.

Sai-Lai


>>>>> Andrew Stitcher writes:

> I noticed that there some recent (August) patches to the SP5.0 C++ 
> compilers. So I installed them and tried to compile the version of 
> omniORB that we use (2.6.1+some patches), whilst compiling omniidl2 I 
> get the following error:

> 	Undefined                       first referenced
> 	 symbol                             in file
> 	__SLIP.DELETER__C                   omniORB2_be/libomniORB2_be.a(o2be
> _predefined_type.o)
> 	__SLIP.DELETER__D                   omniORB2_be/libomniORB2_be.a(o2be
> _enum.o)
> 	__SLIP.DELETER__E                   omniORB2_be/libomniORB2_be.a(o2be
> _interface.o)
> 	ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to omniidl2

> 1) Does anyone understand what this means? It seems the __SLIP.* 
> symbols all appear to be internal to the compiler. In some of the 
> other files the symbols are defined but only as local symbols.

> 2) Sai-Lai has reported successfully compiling (if not actually 
> running) omniORB - which version of omniORB is this? Sun clain to 
> have fixed bugs similar to those reported by Sai-Lai, would it be 
> worth trying again with whatever version with the latest (and 
> hopefully better working) versions of the compiler?








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