Re: Error 461: Unable to load locale categories

On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, Jake Colman wrote: > We develop and sell a software product that uses Informix. Our > client base is on Informix 5. In-house we have both Informix 5 and Informix > 7. I just rebuilt my app to statically link with the Informix 7 libraries > (since RogueWave DBTools requires it) with the expectation that the resultant > executable will work with both the Informix 5 and Informix 7 databases. When > I try to run the app against my Informix 5 database, I get the 461 error. > > 1) What does this error mean exactly? It means that the version 7 code is looking for files (specifically GLS files) which are not present in the version 5 INFORMIXDIR. > 2) Can I even do what I am trying to do? No -- witness the errors you are getting. > Basically, my clients will have Informix 5 licenses. Can I ship > them a product statically linked with the Informix 7 libraries and > expect it work properly? We do plan on upgrading all our clients > to Informix 7 but this will be a rolling process and not everyone > will be upgraded at the same time. I think you will probably need to dual-port your code. Or compile on 5 and distribute that to the 7.x customers, but even that isn't 100% reliable (you might have to play tricks with the location of the message files, and you'd have to use the relay module). Yours, Jonathan Leffler (jleffler@informix.com) #include <witticism.h> Guardian of DBD::Informix v0.60 -- http://www.perl.com/CPAN Informix IDN for D4GL & Linux -- http://www.informix.com/idn