Re: commonc++ portability on hpux

[David Sugar]

That sounds pretty gruesome.  But it will be good once we have a solid port, 
at least it only needs to be done once :).

On Friday 02 August 2002 11:39 am, Simon Morlat wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> After a full day of hard work, I succeeded in compiling commoncpp on
> hpux... but in an awfull manner (i wrote directly in config.h).
> Now to send you a patch, I have to make more elegant.
> HPUX C header files are really a nightmare and I had fight hard...
> The aCC compiler requires a -AA option to work with the full range of
> C++ functionalities... else it does support exceptions, namespaces...
> I will send you a properly modified acconfig.h next week.
> Thank you
> Simon
>
> Le ven 02/08/2002 à 16:48, David Sugar a écrit :
> > I have not tried using a hpux target myself, but I suspect those that
> > have tried to do so have done it with older releases as most of the
> > original patches for hpux support are now over a year old or more.
> >
> > I suspect if you pass "CC=aCC CXX=aCC ./configure" you may get more
> > reasonable results in your configure script for testing of compiler
> > features.  The configure script attempts to test compile something with a
> > namespace use to see if namespace support exists and may be testing with
> > a default c++ compiler that doesn't support namespaces.
> >
> > If you have any patches to send, I would be happy to incorporate them.
> >
> > David
> >
> > --- Simon wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I recently tried to compile commoncpp2 on hpux-11.0 but I encoutered
> > some problems. A header file named <netinet/inet.h> is called from
> > config.h, but unfortunately this file does not exist on hpux11.0.
> > My first question is; on what version of hpux commoncpp2 was supposed to
> > compile for ?
> > If this problem was not already reported and being solved, I can try to
> > fix it.
> > My second question is; was it supposed to work with the HP proprietary
> > C++ compiler (aCC). I was using the lastest version of aCC.
> > Other strange thing: when configure runs, it says that aCC does not
> > support namespace. I 'm very surprised of that since aCC is supposed to
> > understand namespace (according to its documentation).
> >
> > In the perspective that I would try to solve all those problems myself,
> > do you have any special recommendations (do you prefer patches, do you
> > want me to work using the cvs (subversion?) ).
> > Thank you.
> >
> > Simon