Re: problem with esql

Chris wrote: > I installed informix SE on Linux (slackware, linux 2.0.30), and > installed the demo database. dbaccess runs well, but I was unable to > user the preprocessor for any of the *.ec programs. For example, the > first example in the ESQL/C manual says to use the following command: > esql -o demo1 demo1.ec. It gave the following error: unknown error > message 33000. I tried other parameters with esql, such as -e, -ansi, > etc, but they all give the same error. That's an unusual number, but I'd concur with Keith Moffat that the chances are that you've not got your complete Informix environment. What's odd is that DB-Access works. Did you install SE and ESQL/C in the same INFORMIXDIR? If not, then that's the trouble. If so, did you change the environment between running DB-Access and ESQL/C? I wonder if it could be LD_LIBRARY_PATH? On RedHat 5.1, the wonderful X system quietly clobbers LD_LIBRARY_PATH -- unsets it completely. That is a pain in the posterior if you do as I do, which is to login under a terminal and then run X. Still, the ESQL/C doesn't normally depend on that -- it is just the programs you build which do. At any rate, check your environment very carefully. -- Jonathan Leffler (jleffler@informix.com, jleffler@earthlink.net) Guardian of DBD::Informix v0.60 -- see http://www.perl.com/CPAN #include <disclaimer.h>