Re: Migration form informix 4GL version 1.1 to version 6.04

On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, cocobod wrote: > We have moved from informix version 1.1 to version 6.04 and we are That is a huge leap in the versions, as you are aware. The releases went 1.00, 1.10, 1.10.03, 4.00, 4.10, 4.11, 4.12/6.00 .. 4.16/6.04, 4.17/6.05, 4.20/7.20. Version 4.0 was released somewhere around 1989, and 1.00 in 1986, so your code is about 10 years old. > having some problems re-compiling programs written informix version 1.1 > on the maachine with informix version 6.04. Although the programs in > version 1.1 compiled successfully when we try to re-compile the same > programs in informix 6.04 environment we the following error message: > > "UX:sh (cc): Error cc: Syntax errror at line 1: '(' unexpected" > Meanwhile there is a valid (not beginning of comment) informix 4GL > statement in line 1. AIX or HP-UX? On the face of it, you have a executable file called cc in your path ahead of the system C compiler, and it is not a valid shell script, or the system C compiler has been corrupted. Check what happens when you compile: $ cat > hello.c <<! int main(){ puts("Hello World!"); return 0; }! $ cc -o hello hello.c $ If that isn't the problem, then either the c4gl script or something which it invokes is not working correctly. You'll probably have to run: $ sh -x $INFORMIXDIR/bin/c4gl -c file.4gl 2>&1 | tee c4gl.log | more and wade through the output to work out what is going wrong and which program is really causing the trouble. Yours, Jonathan Leffler (jleffler@informix.com) #include <witticism.h> Guardian of DBD::Informix -- see http://www.perl.com/CPAN