RE: [Re: [[gtkmm] gtkmm 2.2.3 on Solaris 8]]

[Murray Cumming Comneon com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Peter [mailto:mpeter hsr ch] 
> Sent: Mittwoch, 9. Juli 2003 13:38
> To: Cumming Murray (COMNEON Linz); gtkmm-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: [Re: [[gtkmm] gtkmm 2.2.3 on Solaris 8]]
> 
> 
> hi
> 
> sorry that i have not written earlier. but i've made no 
> progress. the solaris
> compiler has some serious problems with this partial template 
> specialication
> stuff.

I'm quite sure that there are no major changes since gtkmm 2 last built with
Sun's Forte compiler. Really, it should be simple to make it work. Have you
looked at the mailing list archive?

> i've seen how you generate the c++ files, but i do not 
> know how they
> have to look, that the solaris compiler is able to compile them. 
> 
> if the solaris compiler would not work with 2.2.3 i will try 
> to use gtkmm 1.2,
> or i've to change the compiler to gcc.
> 
> i also tried to apply the newest patch for the solaris 
> compiler,

Is that one of the patches mentioned in our readme, or something new. You
should not need anything newer than the ones in the readme file.

> but with this
> patch our software would be instable and produces some very 
> curious coredumps,
> so i had to step back to the older patch.  
> 
> Martin Peter
> 
> 
> On Wed, 9 Jul 2003 10:53:03 +0200
>  Murray Cumming Comneon com wrote:
> > Martin, did you make any progress with this? I was pleased 
> to hear that you
> > found a solution, but I'm still looking forward to applying 
> the patch.
> > 
> > Murray Cumming
> > murrayc usa net
> > www.murrayc.com 
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Murray Cumming [mailto:murrayc usa net] 
> > > Sent: Montag, 30. Juni 2003 17:41
> > > To: Martin Peter; Murray Cumming; gtkmm-list gnome org
> > > Subject: Re: [Re: [[gtkmm] gtkmm 2.2.3 on Solaris 8]]
> > > 
> > > 
> > > "Martin Peter" <mpeter hsr ch> wrote:
> > > >  Murray Cumming <murrayc usa net> wrote:
> > > > > Yes, there seems to be a problem with the latest gtkmm 
> > > version. I think
> > > we
> > > > > have fixed similar SUN problems before so it should not 
> > > be too difficult
> > > to
> > > > > fix. You might look in the archive and look for SUN in 
> > > the .m4 files.
> > > > 
> > > > If found the problems, i saw also the .m4 files, but i do 
> > > not now how to
> > > apply
> > > > the m4-scripts to the source. i saw that some code has been 
> > > generated by
> > > > gtkmmproc, but i do not now how to use it. is there some 
> > > documentation
> > > about
> > > > this issue?
> > > 
> > > Yes. See docs/internals. I guess that you need to change 
> some of the
> > > conversions in convert_*.m4.
> > > 
> > > To actually generate the new files, I think you need to 
> configure with
> > > --enable-maintainer-mode. Using autogen.sh (as you would from 
> > > cvs, which you
> > > should also do to make a patch), should do this for you 
> by default.
> > > 
> > > Even if you can't do that do still open a bug about this. If 
> > > you know how the
> > > generated code should look then please mention that too.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Murray Cumming
> > > murrayc usa net
> > > www.murrayc.com
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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