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From: Mike Jagdis <jaggy@purplet.demon.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.databases.informix,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Anyone running Informix 4GL/SE on Linux or FreeBSD?
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 96 20:59:00 GMT
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* In message <4hkfn8$51o@helena.MT.net>, Nate Williams said:
NW> I've run Informix/SE in SCO emulation mode on my FreeBSD
NW> box, but all
NW> the binaries I'm using were developed/compiled under SCO
NW> since none of
NW> the free unices allow you to link against SCO libraries.
NW> (That's a *tough* problem)
Actually linking against SCO libraries is easy. The tough part is that you
need to *have* the SCO libraries. Although for Informix 4GL you should be
able to get away with a pretty basic libc and possibly a libnsl_s (TLI
library) for newer Informix versions.
Mike