Re: New Era V3
Jamie, Thanks for the tidbit about long names. If your apps have been built with a lot of interdependencies (INCLUDEs, EXTERNAL FUNCTIONs, etc.) then the makefile correctly sees these and says, "Recompile." Sometimes the recompilation can become "circular" in that when a module farther down the line gets recompiled, it kicks off the recompilation of an earlier one. The way around this is to minimize INCLUDEs by redesigning the structure. The external functions should be commented out when doing many compiles per day and then uncomment them periodically and compile (also, before the code is released). You want to catch as many errors in calling functions as possible at compile time. Paige At 12:38 PM 5/28/98 -0700, you wrote: >Heres a little point, be warned that although v3 of NewEra is 32bit, runs on >95 and NT etc etc. It will allow you to create file names for WIFs, 4GLs >and 4GHs upto 255 characters........ However, it won't compile because the >compiler can still only handle upto 8 characters. As I've just spent nearly >to hours finding out. I had a file called usermaint.4gh and when trying to >compile kept getting a -4010 error. Saying that the file could not be >found. But I know the filename and path I was using was correct. This >error appears in another header file which includes usermaint.4gh. >Finally I decided to compile usermaint on its own, but the compiler kept >'ABORTING'. After a while I went to read the .err file created but could >not find it. Why? Because the file it had created was usermain.err, it was >ignoring any characyer past the 8th and therefore could not find >usermaint.4gh it was looking for usermain.4gh. > >This was bloody irritating, perhaps someone at Informix could tell me why I >am allowed to create 255 character filenames, but am unable to compile them >(without changing the name). Thought this was supposed to be 32bit??? > > >Question: >Also, does anybody know why when I go to build my application with the >makefile generated by NewEra. it recompiles nearly all of the source code? >(I may have only chaged one file but about 15-20 others are re-compiled as >well, that have nothing to do with the one I've changed) > > >Ta for any help > >Jamie > > > C. Paige Miller C. Paige Miller Consulting P.O. Box 467066 Atlanta, GA 31146-7066 Phone: 770-521-1506 Fax: 770-521-1506