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

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 06:44:43PM -0700, uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com wrote:
> > 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.

That bug was closed on debian at least a month ago (I can't say more precisely
because that's how long it takes for closed bugs to be deleted).  If you want
more information, you might try emailing the debian maintainer, Brent Fulgham
(bfulgham@debian.org).

-- Nathaniel