[FreeDCE-DCOMdev] FreeDCE compilation on Mandrake Linux

[Panon, Paul-A. <Pau...@Si...>]

I have been experiencing some compilation problems on Linux Mandrake 7.0 and
7.1. I haven't tried with 7.2 yet.
The bison and other components work fine. The problem seems to be with the
c++ compiler when compiling c++ modules in the uuid directory. The problem
is that these versions of Mandrake (and maybe Redhat too?) don't seem to use
the include path for the new c++ includes for egcs. Those are only available
under the "compat-..." forms of the command:

$ gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux/2.95.3/specs
gcc version 2.95.3 19991030 (prerelease)

$ compat-egcs -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux/egcs-2.91.66/specs
gcc driver version 2.95.3 19991030 (prerelease) executing gcc version
egcs-2.91.66 

$ g++ -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux/2.95.3/specs
gcc version 2.95.3 19991030 (prerelease)

$ compat-egcs++ -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux/egcs-2.91.66/specs
gcc driver version 2.95.3 19991030 (prerelease) executing gcc version
egcs-2.91.66

I am not sure how I would get autoconf or configure to identify that it is
supposed to use the compat-* compilers.
In the meantime, I have hacked the uuid Makefile.in to have the following
change

--- Makefile.in Wed Mar  7 13:40:17 2001
+++ Makefile.in.bak     Wed Mar  7 13:38:18 2001
@@ -91,7 +91,6 @@

 CFLAGS = -g -Wall -W -O -pipe -Werror
 INCLUDES =  $(dce_includes)
-CXXINCLUDES =

 SUFFIXES = .idl

@@ -132,8 +131,8 @@
 uuid_DEPENDENCIES =  libuuid.la
 uuid_LDFLAGS =
 CXXFLAGS = @CXXFLAGS@
-CXXCOMPILE = $(CXX) $(DEFS) $(INCLUDES) $(CXXINCLUDES) $(AM_CPPFLAGS)
$(CPPFLAGS) $(AM_CXXFLAGS) $(CXXFLAGS)
-LTCXXCOMPILE = $(LIBTOOL) --mode=compile $(CXX) $(DEFS) $(INCLUDES)
$(CXXINCLUDES) $(AM_CPPFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) $(AM_CXXFLAGS) $(CXXFLAGS)
+CXXCOMPILE = $(CXX) $(DEFS) $(INCLUDES) $(AM_CPPFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS)
$(AM_CXXFLAGS) $(CXXFLAGS)
+LTCXXCOMPILE = $(LIBTOOL) --mode=compile $(CXX) $(DEFS) $(INCLUDES)
$(AM_CPPFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) $(AM_CXXFLAGS) $(CXXFLAGS)
 CXXLD = $(CXX)
 CXXLINK = $(LIBTOOL) --mode=link $(CXXLD) $(AM_CXXFLAGS) $(CXXFLAGS)
$(LDFLAGS) -o $@
 COMPILE = $(CC) $(DEFS) $(INCLUDES) $(AM_CPPFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) $(AM_CFLAGS)
$(CFLAGS)

and pass the CXXINCLUDES path on the make command line.  

Paul-Andre Panon
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