Build problems

[Mike Moran]

Bryan VanDeVen wrote:
> 
> Mike Moran wrote:
> 
> > I think you may. I'm currently also having problems with this file.
> > Right now I'm testing out g++ 2.95.1 with the gas assembler. I was
> > having problems elsewhere, in my own code, due to the Sun assembler not
> > being able to handle long symbol names. However, this shows itself as
> > the following type of error:
> >
> > /usr/ccs/bin/as: "/var/tmp/ccMsw135.s", line 11041:
> > error: can't compute
> > value of an expression involving an external symbol
> >
> > I don't know whether the error we are getting on vtkHyperStreamline is
> > also due to the Sun assembler, though it does seem a likely culprit.
> > I'll most likely be able to get back to you on this within the next few
> > days ....
> 
> Well it has begun to build fine now, though I have not changed much.  In
> particular I am still using the Sun Assembler.  I did have to add
> -fpermissive to get gcc-2.95.1 not to choke on the implicit int type
> decls. in some of the X system headers. 

Ah, right, I never tried that flag. Where did you add this flag to the
VTK setup?

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Mike Moran, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, The University of Edinburgh
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