[omniORB] Installation and Configuration on RedHat 6.0

Robert Simmons gnuish@uswest.net
Tue, 14 Sep 1999 15:59:10 -0600


One other note. The flag to enable exceptions should be -fexceptions
NOT -fhandle-exceptions.

--rob

----- Original Message -----
From: Sai-Lai Lo <S.Lo@uk.research.att.com>
To: <omniorb-list@uk.research.att.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 1999 1:53 PM
Subject: Re: [omniORB] Installation and Configuration on RedHat 6.0


> Just to clear any confusion, I've spent half a day to configure a RH 6
box,
> compile omniORB_2.8.0pre2 on the box and run my testsuite.
>
> I have not encountered any problem in the build or in running the test
> programs.  The omniORB::loader works fine and I do not see the core
> dump Mike Ladwig reported previously.
>
> Just a few extra notes:
>
> 1. To compile, edit config.mk and select platform = i586_linux_2.0_glibc.
>    Edit <top>/mk/platforms/i586_linux_2.0_glibc.mk and changed
>        CXX = g++
>        CC  = gcc
>    The default were /usr/local/egcs/bin/g++ and /usr/local/egcs/bin/gcc
>
> 2. The source
<top>/src/lib/omniORB2/orbcore/gatekeepers/alone/gatekeeper.cc
>      Add #include <unistd.h> to remove the warning about gethostname().
>
> 3. I'm using linux kernel 2.2.12, not the default that comes with Redhat.
>    This is necessary to get all the nfs fixes so that the machine
>    works in our environment. I do not expect this affects the running of
>    applications.
>
> Sai-Lai
>
>
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