[omniORB] building omniORB-4.0.0 on solaris 2.8 with gcc 3.2.1

[Fred Cook]

Hi all,

This is a note to anyone who is thinking of using gcc 3.2.1 and
omniORB-4.0.0 on solaris 2.8 (32 bit mode).

1) The version of python that comes with the source code distribution
will not build.  You need python 2.2.2 (or close).  With python-2.2.2,
binutils 2.13 will not work.  The python people say it won't and it
doesn't.  Use binutils 2.13.2.

2) The autoconfig script:  If it doesn't find python, it will continue,
generate make files and act as if everything is OK.  This is not good.
autoconfig should generate some sort of error msg if python is missing,
or at least stop short of generating make files.  Also when you do a
"./configure -help" the parm for setting the location of python is
missing, you can find it in the UNIX readme.  I believe this should be
displayed in the -help command because, after all, python is a rather
key player in building omniORB and it should be easy to find in the help
system.

Hopes this helps somebody

-Fred