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Re: OAT install on HPUX [50]

Posted By: JOHN BALLENTINE III
Date: Wednesday, 5 March 2008, at 12:58 p.m.

In Response To: Re: OAT install on HPUX [50] (Amit Dandekar)

Finally, progress!
(Still not functional, but I am getting closer)

When last we left our daring hero, he was trying desperately to install OAT without installing 20 other programs. Unfortunately, this was not to be…

I have a LONG list of what I tried, if it is of help to someone, but that all failed. There is no way I can find to force the HP C compiler (the purchased product, not just the free included C compiler) to recognize the Zend header files (zend_alloc.h was the first, and it went downhill from there.)

So, despite my best wishes, I had to install:
Updated HP Web Server Suite package (valid PHP version)
Autoconf
M4
Autoheader
Automake
Gcc
Zlib
Libgcc
Libiconf
Gettext (Which I theoretically already had, except it was an “old” version…)

At this point, “./configure” works with no major errors. "make" processes, and generates what seems to be an output of some kind. Unfortunately, I see a series of errors similar to:

*** Warning: linker path does not have real file for library -lifcli.
*** I have the capability to make that library automatically link in when
*** you link to this library. But I can only do this if you have a
*** shared version of the library, which you do not appear to have
*** because I did check the linker path looking for a file starting
*** with libifcli and none of the candidates passed a file format test
*** using a file magic. Last file checked: /osm/thishost/appl/informix.11/lib/cl
i/libifcli.sl

It repeats again for libifsql.sl, libifasf.sl, libifgen.sl, libifos.sl, libifgls.sl, libifglx.sl. Note that all files exist in those paths that it is looking for. Then I see:

*** Warning: libtool could not satisfy all declared inter-library
*** dependencies of module pdo_informix. Therefore, libtool will create
*** a static module, that should work as long as the dlopening
*** application is linked with the -dlopen flag.

And then it "finishes", writing pdo_informix.a and pdo_informix.la to the path:

/opt/hpws/apache/php/lib/php/extensions/pdo_informix/modules

Which is, as far as I can tell, the correct path it should be using. Unfortunately, "make test" now fails miserably... I suspect, because it is looking for ".so" files.

So. After several days of work, and installing 10 different software products, I still don't have a working OAT. I won't rant again, since I started this thread with a rant that I feel no urge to change...

However, I do see an end in sight. I suspect that I'm going to have to find a different linker package and install it also. And then, if I manage to get this part working, I'm still going to have to find "soap", since the OAT install page says that I don't have that either...

To quote Jerry Pournelle: "I do these silly things so you don't have to." Hopefully, at the end of this process, I will have a complete procedure to install this that I can test on another system, or I will have provided enough info to the IBM people so that they can simplify this immensely and keep other people from having this pain inflicted on them.

Messages In This Thread

• Re: OAT install on HPUX [50]
  Amit Dandekar -- Saturday, 1 March 2008, at 10:16 a.m.
  • Re: OAT install on HPUX [50]
    JOHN BALLENTINE III -- Wednesday, 5 March 2008, at 12:58 p.m.
    • Re: OAT install on HPUX [50]
      JOHN BALLENTINE III -- Tuesday, 11 March 2008, at 5:04 p.m.

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