[omniORB] omniORB 4.0.1 soon

[Mark Zimmerman]

On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 01:54:57PM +0000, Duncan Grisby wrote:
> On Thursday 19 December, Mark Zimmerman wrote:
> 
> > Does the unpatched patch file work with aix patch? If so, my patch
> > broke that and I will look into fixing it.
> 
> No, the patch file in the distribution fails with AIX patch,
> presumably because AIX patch doesn't support unified diffs. The
> significant issue is that one of you wants shared libraries to end in
> ..a, the other in .so. Which should it be?
> 

It is not about shared libraries in general, just the python module
needed by omniidl (_omniidlmodule). My copy of Python will not import
the .a file; it insists on a .so file.

If there is another way to get past this problem I would be happy to
hear of it.

-- Mark