Compile problem
John Pocock got error -4604 compiling a 4GL program with i4gl on SCO 5.05, with an undefined getspnam symbol from libos.a. David Stes said on UnixWare getspnam is a shadow-password function in libgen and pointed out libgen.a conflicts. John worked around it by adding an empty getspnam function to his 4GL, but the missing library was not identified.
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I am trying to compile an executable program through i4gl
(i4gl/module/compile/runable) & I get the following error:-
-4604: Error(s) found in 4GL module.
If I edit the file it has the following in:-
| The following errors were discovered during compilation.
|
|Undefined first referenced
| symbol in file
|getspnam /informix/lib/tools/libos.a(ospasswd.o)
|john.4ge: fatal error: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to
john.4ge
|
Is it something as simple as an environment variable?
Thanks in advance,
John.
I have seen similar things on Unixware 7.x. (what OS do you use?)
In the case of UW7 if I remember correctly, getspnam is a function for
shadow passwords and is defined in libgen (add -L/usr/ccs/lib -lgen or
something like that). See also man getspnam.
One of the thing that worried me was that there was both a libgen.a of
informix and a libgen.a of Unixware ... (so you have to be careful with
-L flags).
John Pocock wrote:
>
> I am trying to compile an executable program through i4gl
> (i4gl/module/compile/runable) & I get the following error:-
>
> -4604: Error(s) found in 4GL module.>
> If I edit the file it has the following in:-
>
> | The following errors were discovered during compilation.
> |
> |Undefined first referenced
> | symbol in file
> |getspnam /informix/lib/tools/libos.a(ospasswd.o)
> |john.4ge: fatal error: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to
> john.4ge
> |
>
> Is it something as simple as an environment variable?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> John.
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David Stes Molenstraat 5 B-2018 Antwerpen, Vlaanderen, Belgie
Tel +32 3 237 43 54 Fax +32 3 237 40 76 Email stes@pandora.be
Answering my own question here, sort of, I added
function getspnam()
end function
to the end of the 4gl & it resolved the problem, but obviously I am missing
a library or something, somewhere . . .any ideas?
Thanks,
John.
"John Pocock" <jpocock@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:8p88o0$1mfb$1@nnrp01.ops.uunet.co.za...
> I am trying to compile an executable program through i4gl
> (i4gl/module/compile/runable) & I get the following error:-
>
> -4604: Error(s) found in 4GL module.>
> If I edit the file it has the following in:-
>
> | The following errors were discovered during compilation.
> |
> |Undefined first referenced
> | symbol in file
> |getspnam /informix/lib/tools/libos.a(ospasswd.o)
> |john.4ge: fatal error: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to
> john.4ge
> |
>
> Is it something as simple as an environment variable?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> John.
>
>
>
>
>
SCO 5.05
"David Stes" <stes@pandora.be> wrote in message
news:39B7A7EC.ADCE4780@pandora.be...
>
> I have seen similar things on Unixware 7.x. (what OS do you use?)
>
> In the case of UW7 if I remember correctly, getspnam is a function for
> shadow passwords and is defined in libgen (add -L/usr/ccs/lib -lgen or
> something like that). See also man getspnam.
>
> One of the thing that worried me was that there was both a libgen.a of
> informix and a libgen.a of Unixware ... (so you have to be careful with
> -L flags).
>
>
> John Pocock wrote:
> >
> > I am trying to compile an executable program through i4gl
> > (i4gl/module/compile/runable) & I get the following error:-
> >
> > -4604: Error(s) found in 4GL module.> >
> > If I edit the file it has the following in:-
> >
> > | The following errors were discovered during compilation.
> > |
> > |Undefined first referenced
> > | symbol in file
> > |getspnam /informix/lib/tools/libos.a(ospasswd.o)
> > |john.4ge: fatal error: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to
> > john.4ge
> > |
> >
> > Is it something as simple as an environment variable?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > John.
>
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>
> --
> David Stes Molenstraat 5 B-2018 Antwerpen, Vlaanderen, Belgie
> Tel +32 3 237 43 54 Fax +32 3 237 40 76 Email stes@pandora.be