RDS Compiling Bug

Posted in 1992

Walt Hultgren {rmy} — Fri, 20 Mar 92 21:35:28 -0500 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Path: emory!wupost!uunet!infonode!ingr!nijmeg!clercqm From: clercqm@nijmeg.ingr.com (Marien de Clercq) Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix Summary: 'Could not open file "".' when compiling caused by duplicate module Keywords: RDS Program Compiling Message-ID: <1992Mar19.110830.4278@nijmeg.ingr.com> Date: 19 Mar 92 11:08:30 GMT Organization: Intergraph Nijmegen A WARNING TO ALL OF YOU USING RDS Yesterday I ran across the following compiling error using the Rapid Development System of Informix (version 4.00 UC1 running on Intergraph's CLIX 3.1 r.5.6.1): At running a program compilation from the RDS development environment the system came up with the message: Could not open file "". and nothing was written to the error file (*.erc). It just created this file as an empty one. After hours of trying this and that (changing file and directory permissions, rebuilding the runner, recompiling 'other' modules that had to be linked to this program, etc, etc) I took another close look at my program definition on the "MODIFY PROGRAM" screen and found out that I accidentally had entered the same module twice. And that was what caused this error-message: after removing the second entry, it compiled just fine !! So if you get this message: do not start to look for files with wrong permissions, missing or empty ones, or whatever. Just reexamin your program definition and look for double entries. What I find strange however is that the RDS "MODIFY PROGRAM" screen allows you to enter the same module twice in the first place and that the RDS compiler does not come up with a more appropriate error-message when this happens. It cannot be that hard to make a program recognize a double entry in an input array and a compiler recognize an error like this one ??!! Thought I'd better post this for all of you who may run into the same error somewhere in the future. -- Marien de Clercq ___ Intergraph European Mfg. bv. /|/| // "Don't believe the hype Nijmegen - The Netherlands / | __// is a sequel" E-mail: clercqm@nijmeg.ingr.com / |/_/ \\___ Snap