[omniORB] compiling omniORB

[Stefan Seefeld]

I'm just recompiling omniORB, so I bring up a couple of 
questions which never got answered:

1) [ I'm using the i586_linux_2.0_glibc2.1 platform ]
   Why are the tools (python, gcc, cpp, etc.) all specified
   with absolute paths ? I use a couple of different compilers,
   so I would very much prefer if the compiler would be referred
   to as simply 'gcc', leaving it to me to make sure the right one
   is placed first in my PATH variable.

2) is it really necessary to compile all libraries twice (with
   and without -fpic) ? I always used to build static libraries
   from objects compiled with -fpic, so a single compile run would
   suffice.

3) In much the same spirit, i.e. to reduce compile time, would it
   be possible to add a flag whether to compile BOA support in or not ?
   Since I don't use it, I don't want the COS libraries to be compiled
   two extra times...

Thanks a lot !

Stefan
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Stefan Seefeld
Departement de Physique
Universite de Montreal
email: seefelds@magellan.umontreal.ca

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