[omniORB] compile problems on Win32, NT4

[Sai-Lai Lo]

The fix to your previous bug report is now in the repository.

I've no idea what is causing the omnicpp problem. We have seem reports
about strange behaviours on Windows 98. That seems to do with the use of
pipe to send the preprocessor output to omniidl. There is now a -T option
to omniidl to tell it to use a temporary file instead of a pipe. You may
want to APPEND the following to mk/platforms/x86_nt_4.0.mk:

OMNIORB_IDL_ONLY += -T

However I should also say that I've never seen this on NT. May be it is
time to reboot your box.

On the make clean problem. This is a known problem if the gnumake version
is older than ~3.77. I've put up a new gun-win32-lite.zip which is based on
a later version of cygwin and do come with a later version of gnumake.
Mind you, you may have to redo the mount thing again because cygwin uses a
different set of registry entry. 


Regards,

Sai-Lai

>>>>> Lars Immisch writes:

> Dear all,
> I updated my cvs repository to the latest omni3_develop branch to see
> whether it had the bugfix Sai-Lai mentioned earlier today.

> I then tried to compile the latest version, but failed. During the make,
> omniidl dumped core (figuratively). Just before it did, the message:

> omnicpp: stdout: Bad file descriptor

> appeared. The stack backtrace from Dev Studio pointed to yy_get_next_buffer
> from idl.ll, but the line numbers seemed to be out of sync

> I then tried two things:

> - I did a fresh checkout on the omni3_0_2 branch
> - I removed my latest cygwin installation and replaced it with the minimal
> gnuwin32 environment from
> ftp://ftp.uk.research.att.compub/omniORB/gnu-win32-lite.zip. I removed all
> cygwin registry entries and files before I installed that version.

> Neither worked. omniidl keeps crashing at the same point and I am running
> out of ideas.

> In the past, I had compiled the omni3_0_2 branch successfully. Since then,
> I have updated my cygwin environment to the latest version, but I went back
> to an older version to eliminate that discrepancy.

> I would appreciate any comments.
> On a side note, I have problems with 'make clean' when run from $OMNI_ROOT/src.
> make clean does not finish. It complains in src/lib/omniORB2/orbcore/debug:
> 'No rule to make target 'clean'. Stop.'
> Thanks,
> Lars



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