SunAda 1.1, lock problem when compiling generic instantiations

SunAda 1.1, lock problem when compiling generic instantiations

[Gijs Mos]

Hi,
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Thanks in advance,

Gijs Mos
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--------------------- The Problem ------------------------------------------

After installing release 1.1 of SunAda I encountered the following problem.

The compilation of a certain application, already tested using SunAda 1.0,
seemed to be succesful. However, an attempt to run the created executable
failed.

During the compilation I had noticed that the expected building of
instantiations:
	'compiling instantiations in /usr/SunAda/standard'
was not reported. A second attempt to compile the application, after
'touch'-ing several packages that use instantiations of generic packages,
failed. The a.make utility reported that the generic library was locked.

Below the output from the compilation:
| [65] a.make -All -v -O0 -o <application_executable_name>
						<application_source_name>
| compiling instantiations in /usr/SunAda/standard
| /usr/SunAda/standard/INSTXX, line 0, char 0:fatal: timeout. generic library
                           locked (lock file is /usr/SunAda/standard/gnrx.lock)
 
| ra.ld -o <application_executable_name> <application_source_name>

A search on the lock file stated that the lock file does not exist at all:
| [66] cd /usr
| [67] find . -name '*.lock' -ls
| [68]

SunAda 1.1 was installed on /usr using /cdrom/cdm (cd manager).
The Ada host used is a SPARCstation IPX.
This SPARCstation IPX uses SunOS 4.1.1 with the following patches:
  rpc.lockd jumbo patch                       (ID 100075-II)
  SIGIO signal for async io fails to pend a.. (ID 100357-01)
  setitimer sometimes fails to deliver        (ID 100458-03)

This problem has been reported to Sun but a solution hasn't been found
yet. Any solutions?

Thanks, Walter
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