Re: [orbitcpp-list] running orbitcpp client and server programs from separate machines

[Phil D. <ph...@us...>]

Bill Lasley wrote:
> 
> Phil,
> 
> I downloaded, built, and installed ORBit 0.5.1, and then I went to your site
> and downloaded orbitcpp-0.25.1.  I ran ./configure, but the make reported
> errors trying to build the test programs.  I removed the test directory from
> the list of targets and was then able to complete the make and make install,
> but when I try to run make on my app, I get the following error:
> 
> orbit-idl2cpp ../admanager.idl
> Traceback (innermost last):
>   File "/usr/local/bin/orbit-idl2cpp", line 11, in ?
>     from orbit_idl2cpp.commonfile import CommonGenerator
> ImportError: cannot import name CommonGenerator
> make[2]: *** [admanager.hh] Error 1
> 
> If it makes any difference, I am running RedHat 6.1, which came with gcc
> version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)
> 
> So here are my questions:
> 
> - Does the idl2cpp error above look familiar?  Is there an easy fix?  Sorry
> to bug you with this, but I really don't know anything about python.
> 

I think it's a missing PYTHONPATH error - have you read README.PYTHON?

> - Is there a devel version of orbitcpp 0.25.1 that I also need, or does your
> tar file have everything required for development?
> 

The tar file should contain everything. BTW, If you haven't already, I
recommend you uninstall the redhat orbitcpp rpm before attempting to
build/install ORBit-C++.

Hope this helps,

Phil.