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Re: Red Hat 8.0

Posted By: Peter J Diaz de Leon
Date: Monday, 14 October 2002, at 8:03 p.m.

In Response To: RE: Red Hat 8.0 (Brian Pang)

Brian,

Run the rpm file through the rpm2cpio utility and create a cpio arcive.
Extract IDS from the cpio archive and relocate via
the mv command. I been doing it for years and never had a problem.

-Peter


Brian Pang wrote:

>Hi Guys,
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>I am trying to install ids 9.30UC2 on RH 8, but the "--relocate" option of
>rpm does not work. I am getting the "INFORMIXDIR" does not match the target
>directory error.
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>Any suggestions?
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>Thanks
>
>Brian
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: forum.subscriber@iiug.org [mailto:forum.subscriber@iiug.org]On
>Behalf Of Sandor Szabo
>Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 7:42 AM
>To: linux-informix@iiug.org
>Subject: Re: Red Hat 8.0 [109]
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>Hi Ronald,
>If the pthread library is picked up from /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0 then you
>can use it without any problems. The change we had to do is NOT
>necessary any more with the new libpthread version, so in the future (In
>the version 9.4 ) we will NOT ship this library any more.
>Thanks
>Sandor
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>Sean R. Durity writes:
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>>OK, who is going to be first to get Informix up on Red Hat's new 8.0
>>(released today)? :)
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>To get IDS-9.30UC2 running on RHL8.0, I had to install the
>ncurses4-5.0-9 rpm from disc 2 and move /var/lib/libpthread.so.0 to
>/var/lib/libpthread.so.0.021010 to get the engine initialized. But
>moving /var/lib/libpthread.so.0 just makes IDS use Red Hat's
>/lib/i686/libpthread.so.0 instead. Various users have reported that
>this workaround seemed to perform for them without issue. I examined
>IDS's dynamic executables and it looks to me like the libpthread.so is
>involved in the "Java in the server" bits. Has anybody actually
>tested the "workaround" with any "Java in the server" code that uses
>threads to see if it's really a good workaround?
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>Here's my list of IDS dynamic executables that reference libpthread.so.0:
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>/opt/informix/bin/onbar_d
>/opt/informix/bin/oninit
>/opt/informix/extend/krakatoa/jre/bin/i386/native_threads/java
>/opt/informix/extend/krakatoa/jre/bin/i386/native_threads/java_vm
>/opt/informix/extend/krakatoa/jre/bin/i386/native_threads/keytool
>/opt/informix/extend/krakatoa/jre/bin/i386/native_threads/policytool
>/opt/informix/extend/krakatoa/jre/bin/i386/native_threads/rmid
>/opt/informix/extend/krakatoa/jre/bin/i386/native_threads/rmiregistry
>/opt/informix/extend/krakatoa/jre/bin/i386/native_threads/tnameserv
>/opt/informix/extend/krakatoa/jre/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so
>/opt/informix/extend/krakatoa/jre/lib/i386/native_threads/libhpi.so
>/opt/informix/extend/krakatoa/jre/lib/i386/server/libjvm.so
>/opt/informix/extend/krakatoa/jre/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so
>/opt/informix/lib/cli/iclit09b.so
>/opt/informix/lib/cli/iclit09bW.so
>/opt/informix/lib/cli/libthcli.so
>/opt/informix/lib/cli/libthcliW.so
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Messages In This Thread

• Red Hat 8.0
  Sean R. Durity -- Monday, 30 September 2002, at 3:32 p.m.
  • Re: Red Hat 8.0
    Sean R. Durity -- Monday, 30 September 2002, at 4:07 p.m.
  • Re: Red Hat 8.0
    Obnoxio The Clown -- Monday, 30 September 2002, at 4:10 p.m.
    • RE: Red Hat 8.0
      John Carlson -- Monday, 30 September 2002, at 5:04 p.m.
  • RE: Red Hat 8.0
    John Carlson -- Monday, 30 September 2002, at 5:03 p.m.
  • Re: Red Hat 8.0
    Ronald Cole -- Monday, 30 September 2002, at 6:52 p.m.
    • Re: Red Hat 8.0
      Sandor Szabo -- Thursday, 10 October 2002, at 9:16 a.m.
  • Red Hat 8.0
    Ronald Cole -- Friday, 11 October 2002, at 7:48 p.m.
    • Re: Red Hat 8.0
      Sandor Szabo -- Monday, 14 October 2002, at 10:42 a.m.
      • RE: Red Hat 8.0
        Brian Pang -- Monday, 14 October 2002, at 12:38 p.m.
        • Re: Red Hat 8.0
          Mark Denham -- Monday, 14 October 2002, at 1:51 p.m.
          • Re: Red Hat 8.0
            Ronald Cole -- Monday, 14 October 2002, at 8:15 p.m.
        • Re: Red Hat 8.0
          Peter J Diaz de Leon -- Monday, 14 October 2002, at 8:03 p.m.

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