Re: Uh oh! I got the following unknown error:

From: Mike Kendall (mvkendall@hfx.eastlink.ca)
Date: Sun, Jun 24 2001

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    Message-ID: <3B369C60.3060505@hfx.eastlink.ca>
    Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 23:05:20 -0300
    From: Mike Kendall <mvkendall@hfx.eastlink.ca>
    To: www-validator@w3.org
    CC: Terje Bless <link@tss.no>
    Subject: Re: Uh oh! I got the following unknown error:
    
    Terje Bless wrote:
    
    > On 23.06.01 at 00:30, Mike Kendall <mvkendall@hfx.eastlink.ca> wrote:
    > 
    >> Now I have downloaded the versions as you suggested but
    >> they all fail with the messages like 
    >> .../include/Message.h:134 `class Messenger` is inaccessible 
    >> nsgml.cxx:62: within this context
    > 
    > 
    > That sounds like you downloaded OpenSP 1.4; there is a nominal bug in that
    > version that is triggered by the stricter C++ compiler in Red Hat 7.x (GCC
    > 2.96-RH). You can either get OpenSP 1.5pre5 -- which is said to contain the
    > fix -- or use the following workaround with OpenSP 1.4:
    > 
    > $ CC=egcs; export CC
    > $ CXX=egcs++; export CXX
    > $ ./configure
    > 
    > or, if using a csh-derivative
    > 
    > % setenv CC egcs
    > % setenv CXX egcs++
    > % ./configure
    > 
    > That is, you use the compat-egcs compiler instead of the native GCC.
    > 
    > adicarlo was supposed to put rpms up, but he seems to be AWOL these days.
    > I'll bug him about it when an opportunity presents itself. BTW, Red Hat has
    > a guy working on OpenSP for for Red Hat, so I expect there to be some fixes
    > for this and a couple of other nits in the next release (whenever that may
    > be).
    > 
    > 
    > 
    
    After downloading and installing compat-egcs 6.2 and using the workaround
    you suggested everything now appears to be working with my RH 7.1 dist.
    
    Thanks again
    M