Re: Why is Informix screwing up my SYS 5 apps by linking to libbsd.a?

daniel@starsight.com (Daniel Wood) writes: : Informix ESQL/C links to libbsd.a : Yes, can you believe it. What a major hassle. : Informix ESQL/C links to libbsd.a incorrectly. If you use cc + libbsd.a : instead of /usr/ucb/cc which links in libbsd.a automaticly then you end : up with the SYS V header files along with BSD versions of system calls. : Ask sun if they support this. : : Sun's libbsd.a is buggy. I can get a simple 'ec' program to hang in a printf. : : libbsd is BSD! Things like signal handling, set/get pgrp and other functions : that exist under both BSD and SYS V can have different behaviors and even : different arguments. Very True... : : 1. I purchased a SYS 5 based operating system. : 2. I purchased a database development tool(ESQL/C) for this SYS 5 based OS. : 3. I a trying to develop DB applications that are SYS 5 compliant. : 4. Is it to much to ask for a major? DB vendor to have a SYS 5 base port of : their development tools for a SYS 5 OS? I agree 100%. Informix released a poor environment for Solaris based developement. All of Daniel's concerns are valid as is the thrashing Informix has taken over the cg92 option. We were told by Informix support that we should use esql "as is" instead of linking in our makefiles. In our apps, the only routine we have run across that is needed out of the bsd library is ftime.o. We extracted it from the bsd library and placed it in one of our own which we link with. It seems to work ok for now. I just got 6.0 in, we'll see if they improved it. Doug Griswold dbg@sur1a.ess.harris.com Lead Software Engineer Harris Publishing Systems