[okl4-developer] Magpie problems

[Espen Skoglund]

Is anyone actually developing or using Magpie at all?  I thought I
would give it a try, but after spending a whole day trying to get
anything to work I'm giving up on it.

First of all, which version should one use?  The tarball on the ertos
website?  The hg repository?  The version in okl4?  I've tried them
all with no luck.  The one in the tarball and okl4 I managed to
install after some tweaking (many of the required files do not get
installed).  The one in the hg repo also required massive help to get
things installed.  However, none of the versions were able to process
the really simple IDL test file on the wiki page (traceback of the hg
repo version below).

I was really hoping to use an IDL compiler that was well supported and
feature rich (there's no good reason to have half a dozen competing
IDL compilers), but after my experiences with Magpie I am starting to
doubt whether trying to use it is worth it.  Is it just me who's too
dumb to get this to work or are all the available Magpie releases
completely broken?

	eSk


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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/home/esk-proj/nos/build/stuff/magpie/install-hg-tip/bin/magpidl4.py",
 line 281, in main
    result = target_inst.run()
  File "/usr/home/esk-proj/nos/build/stuff/magpie/install-hg-tip/lib/python/magpie
-11-py2.4.egg/magpie/targets/shared/target.py", line 146, in run
    self.generate_asts(basicast)
NameError: global name 'basicast' is not defined