Dear Jeffer
i have resolved the problem
upgrading perl to 2.8.5 version
thanks a lot for yours helps and suggestions
Marco
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathan Leffler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Marco Avvisano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 12:05 AM
Subject: Re: Fwd: DBD::Informix A configuration failure
> Dear Marco,
>
> I thought I remembered seeing this before, and when I looked at my email
> archive at work, sure enough, on 2004-10-05 09:49 -07:00, I responded to
> your questions. Did you not receive the email from me?
>
> Is there any risk that your response was filtered out before reaching me
> because of viral contamination -- did you reply from a Windows machine, in
> other words?
>
> Your previous subject line was 'problem install DBD Informix'. I'm
> cutting and pasting my previous comments again, on the grounds that you
> must not have seen them...
>
> ====
>
> On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 14:23:26 +0200, Marco Avvisano
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > i'm tryng to install DBD module for Informix on a Red Hat Enterprise
> Linux ES release 3
> > these are the error when i exec Makefile.PL.
> >
> > #######################
> > perl Makefile.PL
> >
> > Configuring IBM Informix Database Driver for Perl Version 2003.04
> (2003-03-05) (aka DBD::Informix)
> > You are using DBI version 1.43 and Perl version 5.008
> > Remember to actually read the README file!
> >
> > Perl: perl5.008 i386-linux-thread-multi dl_dlopen.xs
> > System: linux tweet
> > Compiler: gcc -O2 -g -pi -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DTHREADS_HAVE_PIDS
> -DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
> -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/include/gdbm
>
> Perl 5.8.0? I guess you're using the system provided version rather
> than your own build.
>
> > Using IBM Informix CSDK Version 2.81, IBM Informix-ESQL Version
> 9.53.UC2X5 from /opt/informix
>
> Mostly good - I'm not sure about the X5 designation (it means it is a
> 5th patched revision of UC2 - but doesn't tell me whether it was a
> specific patch for you or something that is generally available).
>
> > Beware: DBD::Informix is not yet aware of all the new IUS data types.
> >
> > Assert macro will be disabled!
> >
> > lib/DBD/Informix/Defaults.pm written OK
> > esqlvrsn.h written OK
> > esqlinfo.h written OK
> >
> > Gosh! Perl doesn't think your compiler handles prototypes.
> > Well, even though I don't believe it, we'll take Perl's word
> > for it and we won't try to force them into use. Don't you
> > need to upgrade your compiler? If you run into compilation
> > problems with the test program, you will need to revisit this
> > issue.
>
> That's odd. I need your 'perl -V' output - as the README file says
> you should supply. It is a warning, but I've not seen it in ages.
> I'll need to review what the heck is wrong via the configuration
> information in the 'perl -V' output. It is most likely an error in
> the Makefile.PL script.
>
> > Testing whether your Informix test environment will work...
> > sh: -c: line 2: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''
> > sh: -c: line 3: syntax error: unexpected end of file
> > Failed to compile esqltest.ec to esqltestub
>
> That, too, is very odd. What has RedHat done to break shell scripts?
> (I'm jaundiced against RedHat at the moment - they are getting to be
> as bad as Microsoft at breaking working software with every upgrade.
> And that's not easy to achieve!)
>
> Please rerun with DBD_INFORMIX_DEBUG_ESQLTEST=yes set in the
> environment, and send me the output:
>
> DBD_INFORMIX_DEBUG_ESQLTEST=yes perl Makefile.PL 2>&1 | tee log
>
> Please read the README file for details about the information required
> when reporting problems.
> ====
>
> As far as I know, you have not responded with the information I requested.
> (Versions of everything; environment; specified log files.) Those 'sh
> -c' lines really puzzle me - what on earth is going on there?
>
>
> There are some issues with RedHat. RHEL3 update 3 has introduced a
> feature called, IIRC, Exec-Guard, which amongst other things loads shared
> libraries at random addresses. This can easily get in the way of
> Informix's fixed address shared-memory communication buffer. The
> indications are that if you use olsoctcp connection (network connections)
> instead, then the system works fine. The trouble is that RHEL3 randomly
> loads a shared library at the addresses we expect to use - the memory
> fragmentation problems can be really bad when trying to get big hunks of
> shared memory for the database server itself. ('Stable Enterprise
> operating system - my foot!' You can't do that sort of thing in an update
> release!) However, that is a problem you would encounter much later in
> the build process - when running the tests, to be precise (possibly the
> ESQL/C test before building the makefile, more likely the main module
> testing phase). You haven't got that far yet.
>
> I also note that you're using an 'i386-linux-thread-multi' version of
> Perl. I'm not convinced that's all that safe for DBD::Informix. The
> 'multi' bit refers to 'multiplicity', meaning that you can have multiple
> Perl interpreters in a single executable, IIRC. And the thread bit is
> self-explanatory, but I don't think you're advised to use it with DBI. You
> might need to set DBD_INFORMIX_ESQLC_LINKAGE="-shared -thread" and set
> THLIB (I think that's the correct name) to the appropriate library name
> (likely POSIX or posix -- check the ESQL/C release notes). Again, I don't
> think this is your immediate issue - those errors are weird in the
> extreme.
>
> I note that Makefile.PL looks at $Config{"prototype"} to find out whether
> your C compiler supports prototypes. One reason for asking for the 'perl
> -V' output is to see whether something weird has happened to that bit of
> the Perl configuration.
>
> --
> Jonathan Leffler ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> STSM, Informix Database Engineering, IBM Data Management
> 4100 Bohannon Drive, Menlo Park, CA 94025
> Tel: +1 650-926-6921 Tie-Line: 630-6921
> "I don't suffer from insanity; I enjoy every minute of it!"
>
>
>
> Jonathan Leffler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 10/10/2004 09:39:12
> PM:
>
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Marco Avvisano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 10:30:06 +0200
> > Subject: DBD::Informix A configuration failure
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > I have problem to install DBD Informix module on Red Hat Enterprise
> > Linux ES release 3
> >
> > #####
> > perl Makefile.PL
> >
> > Configuring IBM Informix Database Driver for Perl Version 2003.04
> > (2003-03-05) (aka DBD::Informix)
> > You are using DBI version 1.45 and Perl version 5.008
> > Remember to actually read the README file!
> >
> > Perl: perl5.008 i386-linux-thread-multi dl_dlopen.xs
> > System: linux tweet
> > Compiler: gcc -O2 -g -pi -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE
> > -DTHREADS_HAVE_PIDS -DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing
> > -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
> > -I/usr/include/gdbm
> >
> > Using IBM Informix CSDK Version 2.81, IBM Informix-ESQL Version
> > 9.53.UC2X5 from /opt/informix
> >
> > Beware: DBD::Informix is not yet aware of all the new IUS data types.
> >
> > Assert macro will be disabled!
> >
> > lib/DBD/Informix/Defaults.pm written OK
> > esqlvrsn.h written OK
> > esqlinfo.h written OK
> >
> > Gosh! Perl doesn't think your compiler handles prototypes.
> > Well, even though I don't believe it, we'll take Perl's word
> > for it and we won't try to force them into use. Don't you
> > need to upgrade your compiler? If you run into compilation
> > problems with the test program, you will need to revisit this
> > issue.
> > Testing whether your Informix test environment will work...
> > sh: -c: line 2: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''
> > sh: -c: line 3: syntax error: unexpected end of file
> > Failed to compile esqltest.ec to esqltestub
> >
> > ########
> >
> > any suggestions ?
> >
> > thanks for help
> >
> > Marco
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Jonathan Leffler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> #include <disclaimer.h>
> > Guardian of DBD::Informix - v2003.04 - http://dbi.perl.org
> > "I don't suffer from insanity - I enjoy every minute of it."
>
