[DB-SIG] Informixdb & Python 2.1.1

[Keating, Tim]

If you're really using Informix, you should be able to get support from
Borland, no?

If you're using the supposed open source release, don't. Allegedly there
were lots of problems with it. You should probably be using Firebird, which
is an open-source project built atop that initial informix drop.
http://firebird.sourceforge.net

TK

> -----Original Message-----
> From: paul@boddie.net [mailto:paul@boddie.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 3:35 AM
> To: db-sig@python.org
> Subject: [DB-SIG] Informixdb & Python 2.1.1
> 
> 
> Chuck Jackson <cjackson@wacoisd.org> wrote:
> >
> >I have the following setup:
> >
> >1)  SuSE 7.2
> >
> >2)  Python 2.1.1 (#1, Sep 26 2001, 15:05:29)
> >[GCC 2.95.3 20010315 (SuSE)] on linux2
> >
> >3)  Informixdb 1.3
> >4)  Informix CLI -- recently nabbed from website, no idea 
> what version #
> 
> I'm out of my depth here, having never used SuSE or Informix, 
> although it 
> shouldn't make a huge difference in this case, I think.
> 
> >I've mucked with "configure", the resultant Make files etc.  I still 
> >can't get it to build.  The main complaint that I get is:
> >
> >make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/informixdb-1.3/ext'
> >make[1]: *** No rule to make target `_informixdb.c', needed by 
> >`_informixdb.o'.  Stop.
> >make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/informixdb-1.3/ext'
> >make: *** [sharedmods] Error 2
> 
> First of all, is there a _informixdb.c file? What happens if 
> you type 'make 
> _informixdb.o'? (I would expect the same error again.) 
> Sometimes, it seems to 
> me, one can get this kind of error when the rules in the 
> Makefile aren't quite 
> right. Are you using GNU make? (This can make a difference, 
> but I would think 
> that on SuSE, GNU make is all you have.)
> 
> It's too hard to diagnose your problem without any experience 
> of the module in 
> question and without the Makefile to hand. One other thing I 
> can think of, 
> however, is that the module is based on a SWIG (or other 
> comparable interfacing 
> system) wrapping and that the pre-built wrappers aren't 
> supplied. If SWIG is in 
> use, there should be some .i files in the distribution.
> 
> Paul
> 
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