Re: ESQL, 4GL and C/gcc on Solaris

On 7/25/05, Neil Truby <neil.truby@ardenta.com> wrote: > I'm trying to compile some elderly programs on a system we're migrating to > IDS 10.0, 4GL 7.32 and ESQL , all FC versions, all on Solaris 9 on a 64-bit > server. > Solaris 9 doesn't come with a C compiler as standard, so I've installed gcc. > > When I try to compile: > > # make -f Makefile > cfglgo fgiusr.c extras.o nfile.o ndates.o getakey.o read_ln.o scan_weeks.o > read_merged.o last_access.o -o /home/caps/tabs/bin/run4gl > gcc: language arch=v9 not recognized > gcc: language arch=v9 not recognized > <repeated many times> > gcc: language arch=v9 not recognized > ld: fatal: file fgiusr.c: unknown file type > ld: fatal: File processing errors. No output written to > /home/caps/tabs/bin/run4gl > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > *** Error code 1 > make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `run4gl' > > I read some cdi stiff that says that the 'arch' flag is a Solaris C thing, > and commented it out of $INFORMIXDIR/bin/cfglgo > > Now I get: > # make -f Makefile > cfglgo fgiusr.c extras.o nfile.o ndates.o getakey.o read_ln.o scan_weeks.o > read_merged.o last_access.o -o /home/caps/tabs/bin/run4gl > ld: warning: file /opt/informix/10.0/lib/tools/libfmain.a(fgiapi.o): wrong > ELF class: ELFCLASS64 > ld: warning: file /opt/informix/10.0/lib/tools/lib4io.a(effin.o): wrong ELF > class: ELFCLASS64 > ld: fatal: file /opt/informix/10.0/lib/esql/libiffgisql.so: wrong ELF class: > ELFCLASS64 > ld: fatal: file /opt/informix/10.0/lib/libifasf.so: wrong ELF class: > ELFCLASS64 > ld: fatal: file /opt/informix/10.0/lib/esql/libifgen.so: wrong ELF class: > ELFCLASS64 > ld: fatal: file /opt/informix/10.0/lib/esql/libifos.so: wrong ELF class: > ELFCLASS64 > ld: fatal: file /opt/informix/10.0/lib/esql/libifgls.so: wrong ELF class: > ELFCLASS64 > ld: fatal: file /opt/informix/10.0/lib/esql/checkapi.o: wrong ELF class: > ELFCLASS64 > ld: fatal: File processing errors. No output written to > /home/caps/tabs/bin/run4gl > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > *** Error code 1 > make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `run4gl' > > Can it not all be made to work with gcc? Do I need to buy a pukka Solaris C > compiler? You're gonna need to do some fairly extensive surgery on the esql, c4gl and cfglgo scripts. Take copies before you start! Assuming you have a sufficiently recent version of GCC (v3.x if not 4.0.x), then you should be able to rig things so that -xarch=v9 (or sparcv9) is replaced by '-m64'. You need to replace '-KPIC' with '-fPIC'. There may be other options that you need to fettle too (or remove). If you're not using GCC 4.0.x, you should add -fwriteable-strings; if you are using 4.0.0, you can't do that (and you should probably, therefore, downgrade to 3.x). ESQL/C will be OK as long as you're careful; C4GL may or may not be OK (it usually ends up with a core dump when it tries to modify a non-writable string); I4GL-RDS might be OK - it is unlikely to have any strings in read-only memory.. -- Jonathan Leffler #include <disclaimer.h> Email: jleffler@earthlink.net, jleffler@us.ibm.com Guardian of DBD::Informix v2005.01 -- http://dbi.perl.org/ sending to informix-list