[omniORB] Building omniORB on hpux11 & py2.2?!?

[Harri Pasanen]

You cannot use gcc on HP-UX 11.x to compile omniORB,  due to bugs in gcc 
that does not work.

See README.hpux11 for details on how to compile python.  
You can probably get away with just recompiling main() with aCC, and 
linking with aCC, even if other python sources are compiled with gcc. 

Make sure that the shared libraries (.sl files) have the execute bit set, 
otherwise they will not load.  This is also HP-UX specific.

Disclaimer:  I haven't tried with aCC myself, I've been using KCC.   Ideal 
would be getting gcc working, as KCC and aCC have various problems of their 
own.

-Harri

ville.vainio@swisslog.com wrote:

> Frustrated with my attempts to get omniORBPy compile, I tried to
> recompile omniORB and make it use my python. I grabbed the source
> tarball, chose my platform and pointed the python var at
> /omni/mk/platforms/hppa_hpux_11.00.mk to my python2.2 executable.
> 
> I get
> -------
> making export in src/lib/omniORB2...
> gmake[2]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/omni/src/lib/omniORB2'
> ../../../bin/hppa_hpux_11.00/omniidl -bcxx -Wba
> -p../../../src/lib/omniORB2  -Co
> mniORB3 ../../../idl/Naming.idl
> 
> 
> omniidl: ERROR!
> 
> omniidl: Could not open IDL compiler module _omniidlmodule.so
> omniidl: Please make sure it is in directory
> /var/tmp/omni/lib/hppa_hpux_11.00
> omniidl: (or set the PYTHONPATH environment variable)
> 
> omniidl: (The error was `Failed to load
> /var/tmp/omni/lib/hppa_hpux_11.00/_omniidlmodule.sl')
> 
> -----
> 
> And I'm positive that
> /var/tmp/omni/lib/hppa_hpux_11.00/_omniidlmodule.sl
> exists. It is the same problem than I had with _omnipy all over.
> 
> My question is (unless someone knows what is wrong):
> 
> What kind of (recent, 2.0+ - I can't go back to 1.5.2) Python have you
> been able to compile omniORB with on HPUX11? How was the python
> compiled? I have tried python2.2, compiled with gcc and cc (hp-ux c
> compiler).
> 
> -- Ville