Re: Informix for Linux work with RH5.1?

Atif Ahmad Khan wrote: > > I am a RedHat 5.1 user and was wondering if anybody has got Informix > running under RedHat 5.1. The press release said that Informix was working > with RedHat to get it working but it didn't say why it didn't work etc... > > I cant think of any reason why it would not work. libc/glibc? Redhat > distributions support both. > > Atif Okay here's the deal : everything that is developed with libc(5) will also run on Redhat 5.1 because the libc(5) libraries are installed on Redhat 5.1. Knowing this, you also know that the libc(5) version of SE will run on Redhat 5.1, as will applications developed with ESQL/C on a libc5 system (Caldera, SuSe and all the others) (*** Do note however that this setup is not officially supported by informix ;) Informix will only support setups that are tested in their labs ! ***) BUT ! Developing ESQL/C applications on Redhat 5.1 with gcc configured to compile against the glibc(6) include files and libs is a big no-no (because esql/c will link informix libraries that are compiled against the libc(5) includes e.a. - you dont want to mix those) Bert