py27-omniORBpy pre-built binary trouble

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Sep 8, 2014, at 3:35 PM, Thomas G Lockhart <tlockhart1976 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> Great.
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>> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.

well, that's pretty much what muniversal is for (run the build multiple times and combine the output).
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