[omniORB] Best Linux distributions for having omniORB 2.8 work right ?

uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com
Tue, 01 Feb 2000 18:44:43 -0700


> Poilpret Jean Francois wrote:
> 
> > Among the currently existing distributions (SuSE 6.3, RedHat 6.1, ...) what's the best for 
> > omniORB installation and programming ? Are there distributions to be absolutely avoided ?
> 
> I think all you need is a reasonable recent compiler and glibc 2.1 (including LinuxThreads).
> This is all what matters to omniORB. I'm using RH 6.1 but I hear that debian potato is
> fine, too. Don't know about SuSE.

Actually, while I was looking through DejaNews for clues as to why omniorb 
breaks on RH 6.1, I came across a long-running Debian problem report: 
"Bug#42618: omniNames segfaults"

It looks exactly like the problem I'm having with RH 6.1.

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