Re: Linux GLIBC version of Informix

George Henry C. Daswani wrote: > Nils Myklebust (Nils.Myklebust@nmdata.com) wrote: > : On 31 Jul 1998 00:45:41 GMT, gdaswani@vorlon.odc.net (George Henry C. > : Daswani) wrote: > > : >Does anybody out there have expected dates on glibc version > : >of informix? I'm itching to port my auction application to it > : >which is currently using postgresql, but would like to make > : >sure I won't have any problems running it on glibc systems > : >(RedHat 5.0, 5.1 systems mostly) > > : You will not have any problems runing it on these systems. All you > : have to do is compile whatever c-code you have on a libc5 system. The > : compiled code will run with no problems on RedHat 5.x. > > : As to when a glibc version will be available Informix didn't say > : exactly, but they did commit to one. They essentially said that the > : Linux distributors had to work this out. When there is some agreement > : on this issue (more distributors, particularly Suse and Caldera) using > : glibc Informix will port immediately. > > Thanks for the reply, I guess, i'll be waiting for the glibc version. > As my development systems are all Glibc based. I'm pretty sure > informix will release a glibc version but it might take some time. > Considering that it's only RedHat and Debian using glibc. > > I do hope oracle releases a glibc version also. > > George > The current Informix port will run fine on RedHat systems(RedHat comes with support for the older libc... Jacque