[omniORB] OmniORB 3.0.2 on HP-UX 10.20 using gcc 2.95.2 and Python 2.0

[Manning, Kevin J]

I am having problems building OmniORB 3.0.2 on HP-UX 10.20 using gcc 2.95.2, Python 2.0 and GNU pth.  

I have made a few mods to the make files and soure for omnithreads in order to switch from the HP aC++ compiler and to use GNU pth.  The omnithreads library built successfuly. omniidl linked succesfully with python2.0 and GNU pth (-lpthread).  However there is a Bus error core dump when making the Naming service i.e. ../../../bin/hppa_hpux_10.20/omniidl -bcxx -Wba -p../../../src/lib/omniORB2  -ComniORB3 ../../../idl/Naming.idl in directory omni/src/lib/omniORB2.

Make transcript extract:

g++ -c -g -I/software_hp/include -Wall -Wno-unused -g -D_REENTRANT  -DPthreadDraftVersion=10 -DNO_PTHREAD_GET_EXPIRATION_NP -I.  -I../../../include -D__hppa__ -D__hpux__ -D__OSVERSION__=10 posix.cc -o posix.o
+ rm -f libomnithread.a
+ ar cq libomnithread.a posix.o
+ ranlib libomnithread.a
+ ../../../bin/scripts/install-sh -c -m 0755 libomnithread.a ../../../lib/hppa_hpux_10.20
gnumake[2]: Leaving directory `/users/smit/kjm/hp/omni/src/lib/omnithread'
making export in src/lib/omniORB2...
gnumake[2]: Entering directory `/users/smit/kjm/hp/omni/src/lib/omniORB2'
../../../bin/hppa_hpux_10.20/omniidl -bcxx -Wba -p../../../src/lib/omniORB2  -ComniORB3 ../../../idl/Naming.idl
gnumake[2]: *** [omniORB3/Naming.hh] Bus error (core dumped)
gnumake[2]: Leaving directory `/users/smit/kjm/hp/omni/src/lib/omniORB2'
gnumake[1]: *** [export] Error 1
gnumake[1]: Leaving directory `/users/smit/kjm/hp/omni/src/lib'
gnumake: *** [export] Error 1

gdb analysis:

bash-2.02$ gdb ../../../bin/hppa_hpux_10.20/omniidl core
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This GDB was configured as "hppa1.1-hp-hpux10.20"...
Core was generated by `omniidl'.
Program terminated with signal 10, Bus error.

warning: The shared libraries were not privately mapped; setting a
breakpoint in a shared library will not work until you rerun the program.

Reading symbols from ../../../bin/hppa_hpux_10.20/omniidl...done.
Reading symbols from /software_hp/lib/libpthread.sl.13...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libc.1...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libdld.1...done.
#0  0x3dfd4 in IdlType::init () at idltype.cc:145
145         BaseType::nullType                = new BaseType(IdlType::tk_null);
(gdb) where
#0  0x3dfd4 in IdlType::init () at idltype.cc:145
#1  0x60408 in AST::process (f=0x4016d5e4, 
    name=0x4014ed8c "../../../bin/hppa_hpux_10.20/omnicpp -lang-c++ -undef -D__OMNIIDL__=0x2301 -D__OMNIIDL_CXX__ ../../../idl/Naming.idl") at idlast.cc:241
#2  0x80fa0 in IdlPyCompile (self=0x0, args=0x400e0734) at idlpython.cc:1257
#3  0xc6930 in call_builtin () from ../../../bin/hppa_hpux_10.20/omniidl
#4  0xc67d0 in PyEval_CallObjectWithKeywords ()
   from ../../../bin/hppa_hpux_10.20/omniidl
#5  0xc4fa8 in $000000BF () from ../../../bin/hppa_hpux_10.20/omniidl
#6  0xc4b2c in $000000BF () from ../../../bin/hppa_hpux_10.20/omniidl
#7  0xc11a0 in PyEval_EvalCode () from ../../../bin/hppa_hpux_10.20/omniidl
#8  0xa4350 in run_node () from ../../../bin/hppa_hpux_10.20/omniidl
#9  0xa4308 in run_err_node () from ../../../bin/hppa_hpux_10.20/omniidl
#10 0xa4264 in PyRun_String () from ../../../bin/hppa_hpux_10.20/omniidl
#11 0xa389c in PyRun_SimpleString () from ../../../bin/hppa_hpux_10.20/omniidl
#12 0x81e30 in main (argc=6, argv=0x7b03a

My questions are:  

Has anyone else built a similar configuration?
Is it worth pursuing an OmniOrb build with this type of configuration?
Is it worth purchasing the HP C++ compiler? 

Regards,

Kevin Manning