Re: i4gl

Steve Romankiw <sromankiw@execrisk.com> wrote: >I have recently installed 4gl to see if it is able to satisfy some batch >processing needs we have. Not knowing how 4gl works, I created a simple >program to perform a DISPLAY to ensure that I have all my components >installed correctly. >During the 4gl compile phase, it appears that our C compiler (Sun >Workshop Pro C v3.0) gets invoked. Our C compiler is a single-user >edition. At the time I compiled my program, 4gl paused (forever!) >because the license_manager for our C compiler thinks that someone is >currently using the C compiler. BTW, I was the only one using the >compiler! >Does 4gl invoke the compiler multiple times behind the scenes? Yes, I4GL does invoke the C compiler multiple times. Probably once for each source file and once again for linking. It does not, however, invoke the C compiler multiple times in parallel (simultaneously), so unless the licencing system is broken (unlikely), there shouldn't be a problem. I've never experimented with a single user compiler licence, so it is difficult to say what might be going on here... Have you tried compiling a multi-source file C program using make -- eg a public domain program like Perl? If that works, there's no obvious reason why I4GL should fail. Yours, Jonathan Leffler (johnl@informix.com) #include <disclaimer.h> PS: Warning I do not reply to messages with anti-spam in the return path.