[orbitcpp-list] compiler issues

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

Hi Andreas & everyone,

The orbitcpp compiler is a bolt-on to the orbit-idl compiler. I have a
couple of questions:

1) Currently you must install the plugin C++ backend library before you
can use the compiler. Is there anyway around this?
Ideally I'd like to be able to run the compiler with the library in the
build directory so that the tests can be run without installing the
compiler. (Otherwise this will break nifty things like make distcheck)
Do I have to patch the orbit-idl compiler to supply a backend directory
as an argument?

2) Currently you must issue 2 commands to generate the stubs/skels:
	orbit -l c blah.idl
	orbit -l c++ blah.idl
How easy is it to integrate the call to the C compiler into the C++
backend, thus reducing it to
	orbit -l c++ blah.idl

Cheers,

Phil.