Re: Upgrade gotchas?

Posted in 2005

Jonathan Leffler — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 05:15:53 GMT — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

caver wrote: > If you have any C code, grep for "popvchar". > (Actually a grep on "pop" would be better.) > If you get any hits, you will run into the same issue we did: > FROM RELEASE NOTES: > C code for use with releases > of 4GL earlier than Version 7.31 that calls any > of the pop, push, or return functions must be > recompiled with fglsys.h header file to map the > pre-Version 7.31 names onto the new function names. > After troubleshooting you just need to add in this to the top > of your code: > #include </opt/informix/incl/tools/fglsys.h> Please make that: #include <fglsys.h> That allows you to change $INFORMIXDIR without altering your code. > This cost us several hours of troubleshooting. -- Jonathan Leffler #include <disclaimer.h> Email: jleffler@earthlink.net, jleffler@us.ibm.com Guardian of DBD::Informix v2005.01 -- http://dbi.perl.org/