py27-omniORBpy pre-built binary trouble

[Thomas G Lockhart]

On Sep 8, 2014, at 1:05 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:

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> On Sep 8, 2014, at 12:37 AM, Thomas G Lockhart wrote:
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>> Great. btw, it seems that the patch files are no longer necessary, though I have not yet done enough interoperability testing to be absolutely certain. I’ll open a ticket at some point to get them to go away.
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> I agree the patch for CORBA_sysdep.h is no longer necessary; it was integrated upstream, but it just so happened that the patch was still able to apply again, with no harm done. I've removed it in r125162.

Great.

> The patch for config-darwin.h needs further scrutiny. In fact the definitions in that file look very suspicious and could be the reason why the universal build would fail.

The build system for omniORB has a lot of history and more recently has autoconf blended in on top of it. I find it pretty impenetrable and would be surprised if we can get a universal build working.

One issue which might make this harder is that the CORBA spec requires specific widths for the integer data types. The implementation probably uses #define constructs to force the right widths depending on the architecture, so having the same code base and just flipping compiler flags may not be enough.

I guess that the universal build was claimed to work in the past. But I have no idea if there was any test coverage to verify that the CORBA on-the-wire data widths were in fact correct. I’m skeptical about the whole thing if you haven’t already deduced this ;)

                  - Tom