RE: IIUG-IDS-9-4-UC2-linux Problems

Ben, The problem is that Slackware comes with i386 version of GLIBC, while Informix requires i686 version. Two significant modules are missing in i386 GLIBC (one _on_exit function in libpthread.so and GLIBC_PRIVATE section in libc.so) Just install GLIBC i686 package from SuSe 8 onto Your Slackware box -Alexey > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-informix-list@iiug.org [mailto:owner-informix-list@iiug.org] On > Behalf Of Thomas Ronayne > Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 8:01 AM > To: informix-list@iiug.org > Subject: Re: IIUG-IDS-9-4-UC2-linux Problems > > Ben Thompson wrote: > > > Thomas Ronayne wrote: > > > > A few guesses only I'm afraid as I haven't used Slackware for ages. > > > > Perhaps you just need to run "ldconfig" (as root) to pick up the link > > to the library you want. But as you say adding the link got the > > installer working it's unlikely this is the solution. > > Oh, did that. > > > > > I do wonder whether you have the correct version of libpam. I have > > tried before creating a link to a library of a different name and > > implied version but this has never worked for me. There is a libpam > > library of the right version on rpmfind.net but don't blame me if > > installing this breaks your system. > > Went there, found that the "current" version is 0.77, went and got that > from the maintainer, built, installserver, seems to work (well, Informix > installs cleanly, so...). > > > > > Why Slackware? I don't want to get into a distro war but IBM has a > > helpful list of distributions and what is required to get them to work > > at http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/informix/linux/ids.html > > Because of what it doesn't do; e.g., run all kinds of stuff that changes > things I don't want changed (frequently, I've found, in other > distributions). > > > > > Ben. > > Thanks. sending to informix-list