[PolyORB-users] Problem installing PolyORB on Ubuntu 10.10

[Alex Miller]

Il 18/12/2010 12:36, Ludovic Brenta ha scritto:
> Alex Miller<reisnakealex at gmail.com>  writes:
>>>   May be you can give a try to the packaged version ?
>>>    sudo apt-get install libpolyorb1-dev polyorb-servers polyorb-doc
>>>
>>>    It will save you a lots of time, and please the guys who packaged the
>>>    software ;)
>> I've already tried it... :( when I launch the command on shell it
>> launchs me this error:
>> "$ po_gnatdist
>>
>> raised SYSTEM.ASSERTIONS.ASSERT_FAILURE : xe_names.adb:138"
>>
>> I think it is because polyorb packaged version is old than gnat
>> version! :(
> And I think this is because you did not read the man page for
> po_gnatdist, it says that po_gnatdist requires a configuration file on
> its command line.  (I agree that the error reporting is sub-optimal).
>
> More seriously: I was involved with the packaging of both gnat and
> polyorb for Debian.  I patched gnat so it could understand the new DSA
> protocol of polyorb; polyorb was also patched to work well with the
> version of gnat in Debian.  The amount of effort was significant; this
> implies that getting an arbitrary version of polyorb to compile and work
> with an arbitrary version of gnat is very non-trivial.
>
> So I think your best bet is still to use the Debian packages.  If you
> find a problem, report it to the Debian bug tracking system
> (http://bugs.debian.org).  You should use reportbug (package reportbug)
> for this; it will automatically collect information vital to our
> understanding the problem.
>
> The reason why I mention Debian is because all of the Ada packagers work
> on Debian and not Ubuntu.
>
I've done it! I'va launched the command "po_gnatdist -I../src 
erat_quater.cfg" from obj directory! Thanks Xavier and Ludovic! Great 
work with packaging polyORB!