[omniORB] AIX patch

[Rainer Frohnhoefer]

Am Dienstag, 07.01.03 um 16:07 Uhr schrieb Mark Zimmerman:

> On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 10:06:29AM +0000, Duncan Grisby wrote:
>> On Friday 20 December, Mark Zimmerman wrote:
[snip]
>> The reason the AIX patch is separate is that it involves a radical
>> change to the declaration order of the operators in cdrStream.h. The
>> AIX compiler is the only one that doesn't like the declarations in the
>> unpatched file. We have always been too scared to make the change in
>> the normal distribution, since we have no way to know if it will break
>> on any other compilers. It would, of course, be possible to put both
>> versions of the code in, with ifdefs, but that would make the code
>> much harder to read and maintain.
>>
>> I intend to turn the patch into a context diff, so it will work with
>> AIX patch. Can someone come up with a definitive statement about what
>> extension the omniidlmodule library should have?
>>
>
> Since I'm not an AIXpert by any means, here is the only definitive
> statement I can make: "On my system (AIX 4.3, VisualAge Version 5,
> Python 2.0), omniidlmodule must be a .so file."
>
> I hope that we can get a true AIXpert to admit to at least the
> following: "It does no harm to make omniidlmodule a .so file."
>
> If this statement can be made without additional obfuscatory text, so
> much the better.


  Yes, it should be a .so file.
	

Regards,
	-Rainer.
	

(BTW - I'm not an AIX expert; I'm only a poor user ...)