r4gl won't work/does nothing
Hi:
After many years of being away from Informix, I am back building an Informix demo. I want to use the 4gl standard demo.
For reasons I won't discuss here, I have installed IDS 12 in one directory and 4GL 7 in a different directory. I'm on centos 8.
I've never installed tools and engine in separate directories, and it seems a good idea, but I can't find any doc on how that affects environment variables.*
I have created a file called 4gl.ksh that I source that looks like this:
OL_INFORMIXDIR=/home/informix/informix.12.10.FC12DE
INFORMIXDIR=/home/informix/4gl
INFORMIXSERVER=ol_informix1210
ONCONFIG=onconfig.ol_informix1210
INFORMIXSQLHOSTS=/home/informix/informix.12.10.FC12DE/etc/sqlhosts.ol_informix1210GL_USEGLU=1
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${INFORMIXDIR}/lib:${INFORMIXDIR}/lib/esql:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
PATH=${INFORMIXDIR}/bin:${INFORMIXDIR}:${OL_INFORMIXDIR}/bin:${OL_INFORMIXDIR}/extend/krakatoa/jre/bin:${PATH}
export INFORMIXDIR INFORMIXSERVER ONCONFIG INFORMIXSQLHOSTS GL_USEGLU PATHI was able to run r4gldemo successfully with this setup. It creates and loads the stores7 database and moves and compiles files to my current directory*. I looked into the r4gldemo script and apparently it does this via fglgo...so that works.
I now try to run
r4gl demo4.4gi
and r4gl literally does nothing. Just returns to the prompt. Same thing if I run just r4gl by itself...nothing.
$ r4gl
$I have INFORMIXTERM set to xterm, which is what my putty is.
Any thoughts?
*on a side note, I try to run dbaccess w/ this env setup and I get:
$ dbaccessUnknown error message 32370.
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mary schulte
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#Informix
INFORMIXDIR should point to the DB instance, not to your 4gl dir. Best, Marcus Haarmann
Thanks for the note Marcus. That was not the problem. I had a great idea to read the release notes this morning :-) Turns out I was missing $INFORMIXDIR/lib/tools from my LD_LIBRARY_PATH as well as TERMCAP=$INFORMIXDIR/etc/termcap Everything is working now! Thank you. ------------------------------ mary schulte ------------------------------