[orbitcpp-list] Re: regression tests and patches for ORBit-0.5.6

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

Hi Richard,

I've placed a pre-release of orbitcpp-0.30, and a specially patched
version of ORBit-0.5.6 in 

ftp://orbitcpp.sourceforge.net/pub/orbitcpp/

The files are:

ORBit-0.5.6-patched-for-orbitcpp.tar.gz
orbitcpp-0.30-pre1.tar.gz


Any help you can give regarding future compiler versions would be
greatly appreciated.

(N.B. the fixes and patches to ORBit will be in the next stable
release - ORBit-0.5.7 - which should be out in a week or so)

Cheers,

Phil


Richard Andrews writes:
 > 
 > I have a favour to ask regarding the next release.
 > 
 > I've had troubles with ORBitcpp configure scripts and some of the generated code when using new compilers (CVS gcc or libstdc++) which I'm forced to use to get standard compliance. 
 > 
 > Most of the problems were trivial (std:: namespace stuff in test cases) and some implicit constructors (for sequences) in the generated stubs which were ambiguous(I think this was a compiler template handling bug), but I needed to fudge some -fhonor-std stuff to make the configure test programs build.
 > 
 > If you could build and test orbitcpp with a recent CVS snapshot (like a daily codesourcery.com build) that would save me a lot of headaches. 
 > Alternatively if you could mail me a tarball (sorry no CVS because of the firewall at work) that you think is OK to test I'll try it with a recent compiler and let you know how it goes. 
 > 
 > Since the compilers are unstable I'm not 100% confident about the error messages and I get the feeling that some of the problems I was blaming ORBitcpp for may be compiler induced.
 > Still I might be able to give you a warning about possible upcoming problems with gcc3 / libstdc++v3.
 > 
 > 
 > Rich
 > 
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 > Richard Andrews
 > Senior Software Developer
 > Ixla Limited
 > <ric...@ix...>
 > 
 > 
 > 
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