[geeks] ORBit under IRIX

[Dave McGuire]

On December 9, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> >   Has anyone gotten ORBit to compile under IRIX?  SGI did it, it's on
> > their freeware site...but they've [rather thoughtfully] neglected to
> > tell anyone how they got it built.
> > 
> >   Can anyone help me out here?  This is giving me a pounding headache.
> 
> Could you give more detail about what the errors are, perhaps even paste in the
> messages?

  Sure thing.  The IDL compiler blows up on interface_repository.idl;
here are the relevant messages:

Making all in orb
make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/people/mcguire/src/t/ORBit-0.5.12/src/orb'
../../src/orbit-idl-compiler/orbit-idl --noskels ../../src/daemons/interface_repository/interface_repository.idl
ld32: WARNING 84: /usr/lib32/libm.so is not used for resolving any symbol.
Error: Empty file

** WARNING **: ../../src/daemons/interface_repository/interface_repository.idl compilation failed
touch my_ir_stuff
/bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I.. -I../../src -I/usr/local/include/glib-1.2 -I/usr/local/lib/glib/include   -DORBit_SYSRC=\"/usr/local/etc/orbitrc\"        -I../../src/ORBitutil   -DORBIT_MAJOR_VERSION="0"       -DORBIT_MINOR_VERSION="5"       -DORBIT_MICRO_VERSION="12"      -DORBIT_VERSION=\"0.5.12\"      -DG_LOG_DOMAIN=\"ORBit\"    -g -O2 -c interface_repository-common.c
rm -f .libs/interface_repository-common.lo
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I.. -I../../src -I/usr/local/include/glib-1.2 -I/usr/local/lib/glib/include -DORBit_SYSRC=\"/usr/local/etc/orbitrc\" -I../../src/ORBitutil -DORBIT_MAJOR_VERSION=0 -DORBIT_MINOR_VERSION=5 -DORBIT_MICRO_VERSION=12 -DORBIT_VERSION=\"0.5.12\" -DG_LOG_DOMAIN=\"ORBit\" -g -O2 -c interface_repository-common.c  -DPIC -o .libs/interface_repository-common.lo
gcc: interface_repository-common.c: No such file or directory
gcc: No input files
make[3]: *** [interface_repository-common.lo] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/people/mcguire/src/t/ORBit-0.5.12/src/orb'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/people/mcguire/src/t/ORBit-0.5.12/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/people/mcguire/src/t/ORBit-0.5.12'
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2

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Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL