Re: [orbitcpp-list] orbit requires gcc 2.95.2+?

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

la...@se... writes:
 > Thanks for the quick reply!
 > 
 > Phil Dawes wrote:
 > 
 > > Hi lance,
 > >
 > > There really isn't much point regressing to orbitcpp-0.24 - there's
 > > not a huge amount of functionality in that release and it's not
 > > supported.
 > 
 > Good news - I've got 0.27 built and examples running (tho having
 > some troubles running them accross two machines at the moment,
 > even with care to copy the server's ior file).
 > 

You have to enable TCP/IIOP support explicitly - the gnome folks
disabled this in ORBit by default because it might be a 'security
hole'. I think you need to pass -ORBIIOPIPv4=1 or something. It's in
the orbit faq:
http://orbit-resource.sourceforge.net/faq.html

 > > I'm confused as to why you're locked into stock compilers - I've
 > > upgraded many a rh6 system to gcc 2.95.2 (well 4 anyway :-).
 > >
 > > These are the rpms I've got:
 > >
 > > gcc-2.95.2-3.i386.rpm
 > > gcc-c++-2.95.2-3.i386.rpm
 > > cpp-2.95.2-3.i386.rpm
 > > libstdc++-2.95.2-3.i386.rpm
 > > libstdc++-compat-2.95.2-3.i386.rpm
 > > libstdc++-devel-2.95.2-3.i386.rpm
 > 
 > Hmmm, perhaps I shall try it again.  The initial problem I had
 > was misinfo - I thought 2.95.2 was not object/link compatible
 > (perhaps that's 2.96) as I'll need to link with others and their
 > objects from 2.91.  

Installing libstdc++-compat-2.95.2-3.i386.rpm sorted these sort of
problems for me.

Hope this helps,

Phil