[omniORB] Installation of omni ORB 2.8.0 on SCO open server5

[Allan Clark]

Roshan;

You're not going to find a SCO-distributed threads library for
OpenServer -- there are no threads for OSR5.  Typically, we use FSU
Pthreads though.

If you got the GCC 2.95.2 from Skunkware (www.sco.com/skunkware/) then
it should have been compiled with pthread support as provided by FSU
PThreads.  You might still have to download the threads package and
install it for the GCC to be able to use pthreads.  I suspect that the
"pthread.h" is provided in the FSU Pthread package.

Is there an option to GCC to have it show its build parameters, to
confirm that it was built with threads?  I worry that the absence of a
pthread.h is not a valid test.

Look for "FSU" or "FSU-Pthreads" on the sco webtree and install it. 
www.sco.com has a search box in the upper-right corner that usually
finds skunkware packages as well.

Allan
SCO Professional Services
(lurking in the background of this list)

James Riden wrote:
> 
> Roshan Alvares <roshana@mahindrabt.com> writes:
> > hi,
> >  sorry to disturb u again..
> > Our omni documentation states that the gcc compiler shud hav been compiled
> > using the --enable-threads option.
> > however we cannot find pthread.h on our entire root directory.. is ther an
> > alternative.
> > once again thanks for ur time
> >
> > roshan
> 
> (back to the list, as I think someone from SCO reads it)
> 
> Sorry, we're down to platform specifics here - if there isn't a POSIX
> threads library (and I think there probably will be), you'll need to
> port omnithread to use the native threading library.
> 
> cheers,
>  James