[omniORB] omniORB 4.0.1 soon

Vitaly Prapirny marl@mebius.net
Fri Dec 20 15:03:02 2002


Rainer Frohnhoefer wrote:
>   Since the number of AIX users is probably not that large, I agree it
> might be easiest to include the patch in its current form together with
> a note stating that:
> 
> a) GNU patch should be used
> b) to build GNU patch with xlC5, one has to add '-qlanglvl=traditional'
>   to the CFLAGS; at least, I had to on my system (patch v2.5.4)
> 
>   There are also install packages with precompiled AIX binaries of GNU
> utils available on the web, so obtaining gpatch shouldn't be a problem.
> 
>   Regards,
>         -Rainer.
There are two problems with patch in its current form:
1. We must use different source trees for AIX and for other platforms.
2. When the original sources are changing someone must remake the patch.
Are there any problems to include the patch into the main sources (with
compilation only for AIX) ?