Resend - hoping to evade the 50KB limit (and HTML/quoted formatting probably had something to do with breaching that limit).
[Eg: > =A0Platform:<br>> =A0 =A0osname=3Daix, osvers=3D5.3.0.0, archname= =3Daix-thread-multi-64all<br>& gt; =A0 =A0uname=3D'aix luchda06 3 5 000a= 97d8d600 '<br>> =A0 =A0config_args=3D'-d -Dcc=3Dcc_r -Duseshrpli= b -Dusethreads -Duse64bitall -Dprefix=3D/usr/opt/perl5_64'<br> ] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jonathan Leffler <jonathan.leff...@gmail.com> Date: Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 7:21 AM Subject: Re: DBD::Informix -- Failure with make test To: Julie Bouillon <ju...@geekgirls.org> Cc: dbi-users@perl.org Sorry for the slow response... On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 3:28 AM, Julie Bouillon <ju...@geekgirls.org> wrote: > I'm trying to build DBD::Informix on AIX but when I'm executing a make test, it fails at every test with an unresolved symbol error (ifx_checkAPI). This comes from checkapi.o - or should do. What's puzzling is that the 'library' list correctly includes the object file. ... We are going to use the library list: -lifsql -lifasf -lifgen -lifos -lifgls -ltli -lc_r -lmsaa -lbsd -ldl -lm_r /opt/informix/11.50/lib/esql/checkapi.o -lifglx And the library build command includes the object file: ld -b64 -bhalt:4 -G -bI:/usr/opt/perl5_64/lib/5.12.0/aix-thread-multi-64all/CORE/perl.exp -bE:Informix.exp -bnoentry -lpthreads -lc -lm Informix.o dbdimp.o dbdattr.o sqltoken.o sqltype.o ixblob.o odbctype.o kludge.o link.o esqlcver.o esqlc_v6.o -L/opt/informix/11.50/lib -L/opt/informix/11.50/lib/esql -lifsql -lifasf -lifgen -lifos -lifgls -ltli -lc_r -lmsaa -lbsd -ldl -lm_r /opt/informix/11.50/lib/esql/checkapi.o -lifglx -o blib/arch/auto/DBD/Informix/Informix.so It can't readily be something weird like 'the checkapi.o file does not contain ifx_checkAPI' because the test program compiled and ran. I would take a look at the output of: file dbdimp.o /opt/informix/11.50/lib/esql/checkapi.o If the types quoted are not the same, that may account for some of the problem. Thank you for the thorough and detailed report - it does help cut down the possible problems. For example, I can see that your Perl was built with the latest XLC compiler - I can confidently assert that the CSDK you are using was not. There is seldom a problem because of that - not least because we know the test program worked. So, why isn't the ifx_checkAPI() function found in the library when it is in the object file linked into the library? That is puzzling! [...megasnip...] -- Jonathan Leffler <jonathan.leff...@gmail.com> #include <disclaimer.h> Guardian of DBD::Informix - v2008.0513 - http://dbi.perl.org "Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves, for we shall never cease to be amused."
