[omniORB] Minor patch to windows build

[Kevin Wooten]

Even replace autoconf?? I know you are open to the idea of using scons;
I have built some scons scripts to build omniorb, the only problem I
have is that the autoconf support macros are not easily reproducible in
scons. What is needed is a replacement for building a configure.h from
scons or Python. I am not sure if this is on their list, but I would be
open to finishing it if you are interested; I could even collaborate
with the scons team if they like the idea.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Duncan Grisby [mailto:duncan@grisby.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 6:53 AM
> To: Mark Hammond
> Cc: omniorb-list@omniorb-support.com
> Subject: Re: [omniORB] Minor patch to windows build
> 
> On Wednesday 9 April, "Mark Hammond" wrote:
> 
> > I have made a simple patch to the build system, so that omniidl will
> compile
> > on windows from a Python source tree (rather than just a binary
> installed
> > version).
> 
> Thanks for that. I've checked it in to CVS.
> 
> [...]
> > Would patches that removed some hacks via cygpath and/or autoconf be
> > welcomed, even if they were "one-step-at-a-time" type patches?  I
guess
> it
> > would mean updating your "minimal cygwin".  A potential future win
is
> that
> > it would open the door to using the via the cygwin Python builds.
> 
> I'm not sure whether it's worth the bother. The whole build system is
> a terrible mess, built out of a combination of several earlier
> systems, with all sorts of hacks to work around problems and platform
> differences. I think tweaking it even more, especially if it means
> having to change the current minimal cygwin thing, is only really
> compounding the problem.
> 
> I think that by far the best thing to do is to throw out the whole
> build system and replace it with something simpler and cleaner. I was
> intending to do that for omniORB 4.0, but it never happened. I really
> do want it to happen for 4.1.
> 
> > Oh - and finally, it seems the devel branch is currently fails on
> Windows
> > (well, 12 hours ago anyway!) :)  That isn't a problem for me though,
I'm
> on
> > 4.0.1.
> 
> That was due to a silly bug in reusing a variable name in a for loop.
> It's fixed now.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Duncan.
> 
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