[omniORB] Building omniORB 2.7.1 with gcc 3.x

[Duncan Grisby]

On Tuesday 21 September, "Steve Block" wrote:

> I'm responsible for a large piece of software which makes use of the omniORB
> 2.7.1 libraries. Currently, the software is built with gcc 2.95, so links to
> the libraries supplied with omniORB 2.7.1.
> 
> For reasons of external compatibility, I'm in the process of rebuilding our
> software with gcc 3.x, so I need to rebuild the omniORB 2.7.1 libraries too.
> Does anyone have experience of doing this? I'm fairly sure that unless the
> changes required to the omniORB 2.7.1 source code are enormous, this will be
> simpler than updating our software to use the latest version of omniORB.

It should be pretty easy to get it to work. Probably the only thing
you'll need to do is modify some ifdefs in
include/omniORB2/CORBA_sysdep.h to identify gcc 3 correctly.

Cheers,

Duncan.

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