[omniORB] Problem building omnipy2_develop from CVS

[Harri Pasanen]

Looks like the old build, without autoconf support does still work.
It seems to require building omniORB itself with the old system as well 
though.

-Harri



Harri Pasanen wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> omnipy2_develop does not seem to build out of the box.  Both README and
> ReleaseNotes seem to be dated.
> 
> I tried building with autoconf, it complains:
> 
> ./configure
> .
> .
> .
> checking local Python configuration... looks good
> checking for omniORB root... no
> configure: error: You must specify the omniORB root directory.
> 
> Ok, fair enough:
> 
> ./configure --with-omniorb /work/harri/omni/omni
> configure: WARNING: you should use --build, --host, --target
> configure: WARNING: invalid host type: /work/harri/omni/omni
> checking build system type... Invalid configuration
> `/work/harri/omni/omni': machine `/work/harri/omni/omni' not recognized
> configure: error: /bin/sh bin/scripts/config.sub /work/harri/omni/omni
> failed.
> 
> Now ./configure -help mentions build and host, but not what might be a
> reasonable parameter, -target is not mentioned.
> 
> I wonder if the autoconf support for omniORBpy is just not yet complete,
> or am I just missing the magic incantation?
> 
> 
> -Harri