David Thanks for the prompt reply. I'll try to pursue at least the casting issue through Red Hat (if possible). I appreciate the information.
Bruce -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 11:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Need More Information on Building on Red Hat 7.1 Hi Bruce, There are two problem that we know of: 1. A parse error with certain function-style casts has appeared and disappeared in various versions of gcc. It's easily corrected by modifying the source code to use older C-style casts. We have no intention of fixing the problem in the source code, since it's a fundamental bug in the gcc compiler which must be fixed by the gcc team. 2. The optimizer has a problem with compiling FormatterToHTML.cpp. This problem also has appeared and disappeared in various versions of gcc, so it's hard to do a workaround. The easiest thing to do is to build Xalan with optimizations, delete the resulting object file, FormatterToHTML.o, then modify the Makefile to build without optimizations turned on. This code is due to be re-written sometime soon, but there are so many more high-priorities things on the to-do list, that I don't know when it will happen. You should be able to run executables built on RedHat 6.1, provided the appropriate versions of C++ runtime libraries are on the machine. Dave Bruce Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" .adp.com> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: (bcc: David N Bertoni/CAM/Lotus) 11/01/2001 Subject: Need More Information on Building 01:57 PM on Red Hat 7.1 Please respond to xalan-dev Hi I have discovered by reading the archives that the latest version of Xalan won't build properly on Red Hat Linux release 7.1 (Seawolf), gcc version 2.96. There are vague references to this version of the compiler being 'buggy'. I need more information about what the problems are and if anyone might be working on it, etc. Can anyone provide useful information on this? I need to make some decisions about whether to use Xalan, when I can start using Xalan, etc. I also need to research whether or not shared objects and executables built on older systems (circa RH6.1) will run on the current RH systems. Thanks in advance, Bruce Bruce Bailey 2525 SW First Avenue Portland, OR 97201 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
