Re: [orbitcpp-list] build issues

[Brian C. <bc...@th...>]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 09:12:49AM +1100, Sam Couter wrote:
> > o The template partial specialization in orbitcpp_sequence.hh also seems to
> >   only work with recent gcc, though older versions reportedly support partial
> >   specialization. I'm not sure what the problem is.
> 
> I've been building with GCC 2.95 and 3.0, which both work fine. GCC has
> historically had many many problems with templates.
> 
> However, templates are a C++ black art that I don't fully understand,
> and I don't even know what partial specialization is, so I can't help
> with this either. Are you unable to use a recent GCC for some reason?

The project I'm working on supports RedHat 6.x, which uses egcs 1.1.2. It's
supposed to support partial specialization, but the orbitcpp build fails, like
so:

c++ -DORBITCPP_MAJOR_VERSION=0 -DORBITCPP_MINOR_VERSION=30 -DORBITCPP_MICRO_VERSION=3 -DPACKAGE=\"orbitcpp\" -DVERSION=\"0.30.3\" -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -I. -I. -I.. -I.. -I/usr/include/glib-1.2 -I/usr/lib/glib/include -I/usr/include/orbit-1.0 -O2 -march=i386 -mcpu=i686 -Wp,-MD,.deps/orbitcpp_poa.pp -c orbitcpp_poa.cc  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/orbitcpp_poa.lo
In file included from orbitcpp_poa.cc:30:
../orb/orbitcpp_poa.hh:48: template-id `operator new<>' for `::_orbitcpp::::_orbitcpp::UnboundedSequenceTmpl<unsigned char,PortableServer_sequence_octet>::operator new<>(size_t)' does not match any template declaration
../orb/orbitcpp_poa.hh:48: confused by earlier errors, bailing out
make: *** [orbitcpp_poa.lo] Error 1

Debugging template problems is like divining stock prices from cloud
formations, in my experience. 

b.c.