[omniORB] omniORB 4.0.1 soon

[Vitaly Prapirny]

Mark Zimmerman wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 05:36:10PM +0200, Vitaly Prapirny wrote:
> > Rainer Frohnhoefer wrote:
> > >   Since the number of AIX users is probably not that large, I agree it
> > > might be easiest to include the patch in its current form together with
> > > a note stating that:
> > >
> > > a) GNU patch should be used
> > > b) to build GNU patch with xlC5, one has to add '-qlanglvl=traditional'
> > >   to the CFLAGS; at least, I had to on my system (patch v2.5.4)
> > >
> > >   There are also install packages with precompiled AIX binaries of GNU
> > > utils available on the web, so obtaining gpatch shouldn't be a problem.
> > >
> > >   Regards,
> > >         -Rainer.
> > There are two problems with patch in its current form:
> > 1. We must use different source trees for AIX and for other platforms.
> > 2. When the original sources are changing someone must remake the patch.
> 
> Yes, but this has always been the situation for those platforms that
> have patch files in the distribution.  The issue that started this
> thread was the question of whether or not to incorporate some changes
> to the patch file as part of 4.0.1.

Thank you. I got it. Sorry for inconvenience.

> 
> The changes in question do not make this situation worse so I hope
> they are incorporated because it would simplify my life in a small
> way.
> 
> > Are there any problems to include the patch into the main sources (with
> > compilation only for AIX) ?
> 
> I have wondered about this too but it is a separate issue which will
> probably involve extended discussion in a new thread.
> 
> -- Mark