Re: IDS 9.4 and Solaris 8

"blue" <devcet@qc.aira.com> wrote in message news:<59aBa.486$mw6.129936@news20.bellglobal.com>... > OK, > > I read the machine notes on Informix IDS 9.4 and Solaris. This is the first > time that I see a warning on this effect. > > - The machine notes states that I need the Sun compiler to install onpladm, > ipload and blademgr. > > - Before I never bother to look if I had a compiler and it seems that I do > not have. > > Questions: > 1) Am I in lala land or did pre-IDS 9.4 did not need the Sun C compiler > ? > 2) Can I install IDS 9.4 w/o the compiler (I am not going to use those > utility) ? > > Thanks My Solaris and IDS9.4 came in one box, and I don't have Solaris cc too. My guess is you don't really need it. In case you do, you can still try gcc. When I installed DBD::Informix, it run some test that used esql of Informix to compile a ec program. I found esql is a shell program and it uses cc as default compiler. I changed esql's code and it worked like a charm.