There's been a long thread in comp.lang.rexx in the last few days from someone trying to get external functions to work on an Ubuntu system.
This was ooREXX 4.1.2 The user's problem turned out to be due to him making function calls with unquoted function names, which were folded to uppercase by oorexx and then didn't match the actual file mixed-case leafnames - no surprise there. But in the Ref manual section 7.2.1 about file search orders it says "Unix-based systems have a case sensitive file system, so files much be exact case matches in order to be located. For these systems, each time a file name probe is attempted, the name will be tried in the case specified and also as a lower case name." The user did also, he says, try with the external function files named in lower case. You can check that if you want in his news post: Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 22:08:30 -0400 From: "Cruz, Jaime" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: FINALLY got OOREXX working under Ubuntu!! Message-ID: <[email protected]> ... Okay, I rebooted, edited out all the "SysAddRexxMacro" calls, then renamed all of the external functions in the directory to lower case. That didn't work. Next, I renamed them to all upper case. BINGO! That worked! I am unable to check this, not having any linux systems. Can someone-else tell if this is a search-order bug, or a documentation error? The same user also has been questioning where the .deb-based install he did put the oorexx documentation. Anyone here know? -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Got visibility? Most devs has no idea what their production app looks like. Find out how fast your code is with AppDynamics Lite. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;262219671;13503038;y? http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html _______________________________________________ Oorexx-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel
