Re: DBI/DBD for INFORMIX-SE 7.24.UC5 for Linux Redhat

Jonathon, Hoang, I have run into some problems after studying the readme. I can make the DBI but I receive an error when I make DBD [Makefile.PL - home/informix/lib/esql/libixos.so: undefined reference to `crypt'.]. I put some print statements into the Makefile.PL to see what it was linking. I created a hello.c program which I can get to compile and run. I can run dbaccess for Informix and everything there looks cool. Any help would be great! BTW - can anyone explain what this glibc issue is for Redhat? Would it be better for me just to switch to Caldera or something else? I have found reference to this issue in the Linux Journal and through out the newsgroups. Thanks in Advance, David Meyer The details ----------------------------------------------------- Redhat 5.1 Informix 7.24.UC5 PERL 5.004_04 built for i386-linux DBD-0.93 DBD-Informix-0.60 gcc version 2.7.2.3 $ perl Makefile.PL Configuring DBD::Informix version 0.60... You are using DBI version 0.93 and Perl version 5.00404 Remember to actually read the README file! *** Ideally, you should upgrade to DBI version 0.95. Using INFORMIX-ESQL Version 7.24.UC5 from /home/informix DBD::Informix doesn't check whether ODBC or Informix-CLI software is installed any more. It uses a home-brew odbctype.h instead. Testing whether your Informix test environment will work... EQ: INFORMIXC='/usr/bin/perl esqlcc' ESQLCC='cc' esql OBJEXT: .o VERCODE: esqlc_v6 ABOUT TO system: INFORMIXC='/usr/bin/perl esqlcc' ESQLCC='cc' esql -c -Dbool=char -DHAS_BOOL -I/usr/local/include -DESQLC_VERSION=724 -DU SE_PROTOTYPES esqltest.ec cc: /home/informix/lib/libnetstub.so: linker input file unused since linking not done ABOUT TO system: INFORMIXC='/usr/bin/perl esqlcc' ESQLCC='cc' esql -c -Dbool=char -DHAS_BOOL -I/usr/local/include -DESQLC_VERSION=724 -DU SE_PROTOTYPES esqlc_v6.ec cc: /home/informix/lib/libnetstub.so: linker input file unused since linking not done ABOUT TO system: INFORMIXC='/usr/bin/perl esqlcc' ESQLCC='cc' esql -o esqltest esqltest.o esqlc_v6.o /home/informix/lib/esql/libixos.so: undefined reference to `crypt' Failed to link test program esqltest Jonathan Leffler wrote in message <363AB0F5.7CC1@earthlink.net>... >Hoang Nguyen wrote: >> Has any one successfully compiled the DBD modules >> to access informix-se database on Linux? > >Yes; I have. > >> I have INFORMIX-SE 7.24 installed on my linux box >> but haven't figured out what's the DBI/DBD version >> that will work with this INFORMIX. > >DBI 1.02, DBD::Informix 0.60 works on RedHat 5.1; so >would most other combinations which are self-consistent, >I think, though I'm certainly not planning to do any testing >of older versions. > >> If someone has already done so! please tell me where >> I can get these drivers! > >See my signature... > >What problem(s) are you having? Have you set DBPATH? Have you got >ESQL/C running OK? If you haven't got ESQL/C up and running, you >do have problems. It should work out of the box on Caldera 1.2 and >S.u.S.E 5.2, but the glibc ports require some extra setup. > >I have previously posted a patch to c.d.i for the esql script for >glibc ports of Linux (eg RedHat 5.1). It will soon appear on the >IDN web site -- http://www.informix.com/idn -- in the D4GL section >(for inscrutable reasons). > >Also, did you read the README files? Possibly not if you don't yet >have the software -- but you should read them. They're available >from CPAN separately from the full source for DBI and DBD::Informix. > >-- >Jonathan Leffler (jleffler@informix.com, jleffler@earthlink.net) >Guardian of DBD::Informix v0.60 -- see http://www.perl.com/CPAN >#include <disclaimer.h> >