Re: problem with esql

Thank you for the advice, my installation was indeed flawed, (this is the first time I install an Informix product). I had installed SE and ESQLC in two different subdirectories, and pointed $INFORMIXDIR to the subdirectory where SE is. I realized my mistake, reinstalled the product (SE and ESQLC) into the same INFORMIXDIR, and now both dbaccess and esql run well. Thanks Chris Jonathan Leffler wrote: > Chris wrote: > > I installed informix SE on Linux (slackware, linux 2.0.30), and > > installed the demo database. dbaccess runs well, but I was unable to > > user the preprocessor for any of the *.ec programs. For example, the > > first example in the ESQL/C manual says to use the following command: > > esql -o demo1 demo1.ec. It gave the following error: unknown error > > message 33000. I tried other parameters with esql, such as -e, -ansi, > > etc, but they all give the same error. > > That's an unusual number, but I'd concur with Keith Moffat that the > chances are that you've not got your complete Informix environment. > What's odd is that DB-Access works. Did you install SE and ESQL/C > in the same INFORMIXDIR? If not, then that's the trouble. If so, > did you change the environment between running DB-Access and ESQL/C? > > I wonder if it could be LD_LIBRARY_PATH? On RedHat 5.1, the wonderful > X system quietly clobbers LD_LIBRARY_PATH -- unsets it completely. > That is a pain in the posterior if you do as I do, which is to login > under a terminal and then run X. Still, the ESQL/C doesn't normally > depend on that -- it is just the programs you build which do. > > At any rate, check your environment very carefully. > > -- > Jonathan Leffler (jleffler@informix.com, jleffler@earthlink.net) > Guardian of DBD::Informix v0.60 -- see http://www.perl.com/CPAN > #include <disclaimer.h>