Building DBD::Informix on HP-UX 10.20
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From: REED_WHITE@HP-Corvallis-om1.om.hp.com
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 98 10:49:49 -0700
Subject: Steps to load DBD::Informix on HPUX 10.20
I successfully installed the Informix DBD on HPUX 10.20, thanks to
Jonathan and all. The following steps worked for me.
Steps to install Informix DBD on HPUX 10.20:
.Lines that begin with dot are comments. # indicate cmnds from root.
.Following may not work unless Perl compiled with ANSI C compiler.
.Install Informix esql/c.
.The following works with the ANSI C compiler.
$ su2 root
.Do the download from CPAN, www.perl.org to /opt/perl5.004.
# cd /opt
# gzip -d -c /opt/perl5.004/DBD-Informix-0.58.tar.gz | tar xvf -
# cd DBD-Informix-0.58
.Read README
# ln -s /opt/informix7.24.UC4 /usr/informix
# export PATH=/usr/informix/bin:$PATH
# export INFORMIXDIR=/usr/informix
# export INFORMIXSERVER=ffdb_soc
# export DBD_INFORMIX_USERNAME=fastfab1
# export DBD_INFORMIX_PASSWORD=tym4ff
# export DBD_INFORMIX_SERVER=ffdb_soc
# export DBD_INFORMIX_DATABASE=stores7
.Verify database access is properly setup (on remote machine).
.The remote user/db must be setup for RESOURCE level privileges.
.Verify .rhosts includes entry for cpu/user, where test is being done.
.Verify local /usr/informix/etc/sqlhosts has remote DB info in it.
.From a CPU that has Informix running on it,
.merge the Informix /etc/services entries into local /etc/services.
# perl Makefile.PL
# make
# make test .May see some errors.
# make install .Can use "make uninstall" to uninstall.
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[...snip example...]
# JL 2000-01-28:
There have been numerous changes to DBD::Informix (and ESQL/C) since
this was written, but the core of the message remains valid. Detailed
changes include:
* Version numbers (Perl, DBI, DBD::Informix, ESQL/C).
* The DBD_INFORMIX_SERVER variable is obsolete.
* Access to the database is most critical. Ideally, create an new, empty
database for testing DBD::Informix; that guarantees you DBA privileges.
If your database server is on a remote system, you must be trusted; at
minimum, the tests t05dbase.t, t07dblist.t, t50update.t, t60unlog.t
will fail if you are not able to connect to the database server without
specifying your username and password.
One key point, though, is the use of the HP ANSI C compiler; this is the
most reliable way of working. You can build GCC with just the bundled C
compiler, see below. Note that if you get things set up right, then you
can use the dynamic loading functions of Perl!
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Building DBD::Informix on HP-UX 11.00
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Versions prior to DBD::Informix 1.00 may have problems because the ESQL/C
script (9.21.UC1, 9.30.HC1) includes references to two libraries (libcl.sl
and libV3.sl). The first of these is damaging; it causes 'make test' to
fail because of thread local storage. The second is simply not needed.
The Makefile.PL for version 1.00 removes the references to these libraries.
The libraries are also referenced on HP-UX 10.20, and removing the
references there does no obvious harm.
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Fixing up Sys::Syslog
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Note that installing Bundle::DBI requires Sys::Syslog to work. Simply
converting the headers in /usr/include and /usr/include/sys is not quite
adequate; you also have to fix up the code in:
.../lib/site_perl/5.005/PA-RISC2.0/_h2ph_pre.ph
so that the dots in the following functions are replaced with (for example)
underscores:
unless (defined &A1.1) { sub A1.1() { 1 } }
unless (defined &S2.0) { sub S2.0() { 1 } }
This is arguably a bug in the Perl tool h2ph, or in the header file which
is converted. It is also quite separate from DBD::Informix. You can test
whether you are OK with the command below. If it says nothing, you're
fine; if it witters, you've got problems to fix.
perl -MSys::Syslog /dev/null
You may need to get syslog.ph installed. The brute force and ignorance way
to deal with this is:
cd /usr/include
h2ph *.h */*.h
In an email dated Wed, 12 Aug 1998 21:18:26, Kurt D Starsinic
<kstar@chapin.edu> recommended a more refined method:
I would recommend the following, executed from any directory:
h2ph -a syslog.h
This will convert all the files that syslog.h includes, and only those
files; and it will do a better job of finding include files in unusual
places (i.e., gcc's `fixinclude' directory).
Note that installing syslog.ph is a routine requirement on all platforms.
Fixing up converted headers is also something that has to be done on many
platforms -- Solaris and DEC OSF Unix (Compaq Tru64 Unix) have also had
problems at times.
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Building GCC on HP-UX 10.20
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The bundled C compiler on HP-UX is of very limited value. If you cannot
get hold of (ie purchase) the HP-UX ANSI C compiler, you need to use GCC.
However, to build GCC with the bundled C compiler, you need the GNU Binary
Utilities and GNU sed (or a patched version of the HP-UX sed). And to
build the GNU Binary Utilities, you need Flex. And to build Flex, you need
Bison. And to build Bison, you need the GNU Gettext tools. And ... no,
actually, that's where the list stops, but you have your work cut out. I'm
assuming that you've got gunzip and tar since you're reading this. The GCC
build instructions recommend using GNU Make. This does seem to be
necessary on HP-UX.
Choose where you are going to install the GNU software: I chose $HOME/hpux.
I added $HOME/hpux/bin to the front of my PATH. Since there was a broken
GCC compiler on my PATH (and I needed /usr/local/bin for gunzip, etc), I
wrote CC=cc before all the configure commands to set the environment
variable CC for the duration of the configure command.
So, I went to my chosen GNU mirror site and downloaded:
binutils-2.9.1.tar.gz
bison-1.28.tar.gz
flex-2.5.4a.tar.gz
gcc-2.95.2.tar.bz2
gettext-0.10.35.tar.gz
make-3.77.tar.gz
sed-3.02.tar.gz
Without doing any inter-build cleanup, I needed 72 MB of disk space under
$HOME/hpux and 314 MB of disk space in the build area (with no intermediate
cleanup operations).
The sequence of operations is in the script hpux-gcc-build.sh.
Note that the bundled C compiler gives lots of warnings about
unrecognized and ignored options -- these have to be ignored.
If you do not install GNU sed (on HP-UX), then the tail end of the GCC
configuration process fails:
creating Makefile
sed: Function s%@out_file@%pa/pa.c%g cannot be parsed.
creating intl/Makefile
sed: Function s%@out_file@%pa/pa.c%g cannot be parsed.
creating po/Makefile.in
sed: Function s%@out_file@%pa/pa.c%g cannot be parsed.
creating fixinc/Makefile
sed: Function s%@out_file@%pa/pa.c%g cannot be parsed.
creating cp/Makefile
sed: Function s%@out_file@%pa/pa.c%g cannot be parsed.
creating f/Makefile
sed: Function s%@out_file@%pa/pa.c%g cannot be parsed.
creating java/Makefile
sed: Function s%@out_file@%pa/pa.c%g cannot be parsed.
creating auto-host.h
You need quite a lot of disk space (in kilobytes)...
33934 tmp/binutils-2.9.1
5576 tmp/binutils-2.9.1.tar.gz
2825 tmp/bison-1.28
424 tmp/bison-1.28.tar.gz
2112 tmp/flex-2.5.4
384 tmp/flex-2.5.4a.tar.gz
55678 tmp/gcc-2.95.2
193814 tmp/gcc-2.95.2-obj
9568 tmp/gcc-2.95.2.tar.bz2
4007 tmp/gettext-0.10.35
712 tmp/gettext-0.10.35.tar.gz
3071 tmp/make-3.77
664 tmp/make-3.77.tar.gz
1392 tmp/sed-3.02
272 tmp/sed-3.02.tar.gz
71728 hpux
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