Re: 4GL RDS recompilation

In article <6hg54d$7p8$1@news.xmission.com>, Leffler, Jonathan <jleffler@visa.com> writes > > > >---------- >From: cklo@tst.hk.super.net[SMTP:cklo@tst.hk.super.net] >Sent: Saturday, April 18, 1998 4:02 AM > >As you know, when upgrading to new version of 4GL tools, Informix >recommends to recompile everything. Currently we use r4gl, but you >know this is a big task if every program needs recompile. > >We want to use makefile. Is there a way to translate r4gl schema to >makefile? Possibly we need to play with syspgm4gl and syspg4gl? > >JL: It is a good idea to use MAKE rather than the syspgm4gl database. I'm >sure that several people have in the past produced makefile generators, but >I can't see them in the IIUG archives where I'd hope to find them. I gave >up on the database system immediately after it was released, so I've never >bothered to write such a tool - I always used raw make. There is a tool in >the archives by Tim Schaefer and myself which does a reasonable job of >creating a makefile for you, but it is not database driven - see >http://www.iiug.org/members/memb_software/archive/inx_util_make_mks. > >I'm not immediately sure whether it would be easier to write the I4GL >report to generate the makefile from scratch or whether it would be simpler >to generate the input data for make_mk or make6mk.jl (which are the >programs alluded to above). It isn't very hard to do, either way, but I >don't know where there is source code already available to do it. > >Yours not very helpfully, >Jonathan Leffler (jleffler@visa.com) #include <bother.ms-exchange.h> > I've kept the post whlst I rebuild my Linux system. I'd like to volunter to write this tool. I just need a dbschema of the database and some description of the table structures. Any chance that you could provide my with that? PS Soon I should have out a tool for validating and creating Online 7 configurations. (Matching up /etc/services, sqlhosts and onconfig DBSERBERNAME/DBSERVERALIAS parmeters as well as $INFORMISERVER.. ..believe me I need it!!). -- David Williams Maintainer of the Informix FAQ Primary site (Beta Version) http://www.smooth1.demon.co.uk Official site http://www.iiug.org/techinfo/faq/faq_top.html I see you standin', Standin' on your own, It's such a lonely place for you, For you to be If you need a shoulder, Or if you need a friend, I'll be here standing, Until the bitter end... So don't chastise me Or think I, I mean you harm... All I ever wanted Was for you To know that I care