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ARSperl install problem

[Jeff M. <jcm...@sm...>]

To: ar...@sm...
cc: sz...@fr...
Subject: ARSperl install problem
Date: Fri, 02 Aug 1996 09:40:22 -0400
From: Sheng Zhu <sz...@fr...>

Howdy. I was trying to install your ARSperl package on a SunOS 4.1.3_U1 box.
Make and make install all went in fine. But when I tried example scripts,
I got this meesage, "ld.so: Undefined symbol: _catopen". Please help.
Thanks.

Sheng Zhu
NYSERNet, Inc.
sz...@ny...

Re: ARSperl under HP-UX?

[Bill R. <wr...@fo...>]

Recompile perl with ARS statically linked into the perl binary
to avoid HPUX position-dependent problems.

I have forgotten the details now but the above is the key.

Bill

Disclaimer here.

Re: ARSperl under HP-UX?

[Bill M. <wm...@fo...>]

Remedy does not ship the ARS API libraries in HP-UX "sl" format (shame on
them) meaning anything linked with those libraries must be statically
linked.  For Perl, that means the ARS extension cannot be dynamically loaded.

All is not lost, however, try the following:

1) Copy or move the ARSperl directory to .../<perl_source_directory>/ext
   which is where you will find POSIX, FCNTL etc.
2) For convenience, rename the ARSperl directory ARS (so it is consistent with
   the naming of the other Perl extensions).
3) change directories to the main perl source directory.
4) Re-run Configure.  When it asks you which extensions you want statically
   linked, specify ARS.
5) Follow the rest of the standard Perl build procedures.

What you *should* end up with is Perl 5 with the ARS extensions built into
the main perl executable, not as a dynamically loaded extension.  This makes
the perl executable somewhat larger than a "pure" perl executable but is in
no way harmful.  All other "stock" Perl scripts should run without incident.
At least everything works just fine on my systems (plural).

For the record:  I'm on K-100 boxes under HP-UX 10.01 with Perl 5.002 and HP C
(the one you have to pay extra for - not the emasculated version that ships as
part of the base OS).  ARS version is 2.0.2.

YMMV  

At 04:09 AM 07/19/96 -0400, Bryan Mawhinney wrote:
>
>Hello folks,
>
>I was wondering whether anyone had any success building ARSperl under
>HP-UX?
>
>During the link phase, I get the following error
>
>/usr/bin/ld: DP-Relative Code in file
>/opt/remedy/ars/api/lib/libar.a(ar.o) - Sh
>ared Library must be Position-Independent
>
>I'm still new to this kind of thing, but I guess this means I'm stuffed.
> I don't have the source to ar.o, so I can't recompile it to use PIC
>code.
>
>Perhaps I could recompile perl with the ARS stuff linked in statically,
>but that doesn't sound particularly attractive.
>
>For the record, I'm using HP-UX10.01, ARS v2.0.2, Perl 5.003, and GCC
>2.7.2
>
>TIA
>
>  Bryan
>
>
>
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except the author.

Re: re:ARSperl on SunOS

[Marc W. <mm...@fi...>]

Do you have a tar/dump file of the latest and greates arsPerl for SunOS
compiled and ready for the taking ?

Thanks

"Lazy in New York"

-- 

"Very funny, Scotty. Now beam down my clothes."

re:ARSperl on HP-UX

[allan (a.j.) y. <ay...@no...>]

We have tried compiling ARSperl under HP-UX 9.05 and encountered the same
problem.  However, we haven't had time to investigate further.  If you find
a solution, please let me know.


Thanks,

Allan.
ay...@no...

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Hello folks,

I was wondering whether anyone had any success building ARSperl under
HP-UX?

During the link phase, I get the following error

/usr/bin/ld: DP-Relative Code in file
/opt/remedy/ars/api/lib/libar.a(ar.o) - Sh
ared Library must be Position-Independent

I'm still new to this kind of thing, but I guess this means I'm stuffed.
 I don't have the source to ar.o, so I can't recompile it to use PIC
code.

Perhaps I could recompile perl with the ARS stuff linked in statically,
but that doesn't sound particularly attractive.

For the record, I'm using HP-UX10.01, ARS v2.0.2, Perl 5.003, and GCC
2.7.2

TIA

  Bryan

ARSperl under HP-UX?

[Bryan M. <Maw...@te...>]

Hello folks,

I was wondering whether anyone had any success building ARSperl under
HP-UX?

During the link phase, I get the following error

/usr/bin/ld: DP-Relative Code in file
/opt/remedy/ars/api/lib/libar.a(ar.o) - Sh
ared Library must be Position-Independent

I'm still new to this kind of thing, but I guess this means I'm stuffed.
 I don't have the source to ar.o, so I can't recompile it to use PIC
code.

Perhaps I could recompile perl with the ARS stuff linked in statically,
but that doesn't sound particularly attractive.

For the record, I'm using HP-UX10.01, ARS v2.0.2, Perl 5.003, and GCC
2.7.2

TIA

  Bryan

Re: Re[2]: Compiling ARSperl under SunOS 4.1

[Joel M. <jm...@ca...>]

from INSTALLATION:

Under Sunos 4.1.x, you will also need to add -lntc to $ARS_LIBS.
(in Makefile.PL).

joel

Re: ARS_CreateEntry problem

[Joel M. <jm...@ca...>]

>Hi!
>
>My collegue using ARSperl had this problem. Is this problem related to
>the bug fixed that was reported about the malloc problem some time earlier.
>We are working with the package after this bug was fixed.
>
>Any help?!!

I can only guess that this might fix you problem (in addition to the
previous patch I posted)...  ARS might not change the status pointer at
all if there is no error/warning.  worth a try anyways...

*** 1.4 1996/05/03 19:27:13
--- ARS.xs      1996/06/12 14:56:30
***************
*** 98,104 ****
    errbuf[0] = '\0';
    if (returncode==0) {
  #ifndef WASTE_MEM
!     FreeARStatusList(&status, FALSE);
  #endif
      return 0;
    }
--- 97,103 ----
    errbuf[0] = '\0';
    if (returncode==0) {
  #ifndef WASTE_MEM
! /*    FreeARStatusList(&status, FALSE); */
  #endif
      return 0;
    }

Problems on Irix

[Eve P. <po...@xi...>]

I'm new to this list, having picked up ARSperl yesterday.

I am installing ARSperl on an SGI running IRIX 5.3.

The example script Show_Menu.pl works fine, but any of the example scripts
that need to malloc fail, with:
can't malloc at Dump_Users.pl line 43.   (for example).

I saw some mail on this list yesterday about a malloc problem that
had been fixed....is there some other fix I need to get this to work
on Irix?

Thanks,
  Eve Podet
  Xinet
  po...@xi...

ARS_CreateEntry problem

[<as...@co...>]

Hi!

My collegue using ARSperl had this problem. Is this problem related to
the bug fixed that was reported about the malloc problem some time earlier.
We are working with the package after this bug was fixed.

Any help?!!

Thanks

Ashfaq



>From own...@lu... Fri May  3 19:30:01 1996
>Subject: bug fix
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> 
>another malloc problem fixed...
>.. 
>At the bottom of ars_CreateEntry I had a FreeARValueList, which I changed
>to a plain free.  The problem was FreeARValueList would deallocate strings
>in the list and destroy the functions argument list.
> 
>the fixed version is at:
>ftp://smurfland.cit.buffalo.edu/ftp/pub/utils/Perl/ARSperl.tgz
 


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ARS_CreateEntry

When I run this script, I get bad free() at line XX messages.
Some entries are added correctly. Some are added with improper 
values in the fields (i.e. middle initial in the "phone" field).

Maybe something wrong with varargs support?


#!/usr/local/bin/perl

use ARS;

while (<>)
	{
	chop;
	push (@entries,$_);
	}

$SCHEMA = "AR-End User Information";

# Parse command line parameters

($server, $username, $password) = @ARGV;
if(!defined($password)) {
    print "usage: $0 [server] [username] [password]\n";
    exit 1;
}

# Log onto the ars server specified

print "logging into server\n";
($ctrl = ars_Login($server, $username, $password)) || 
    die "can't login to the server";

$type_fid = ars_GetFieldByName($ctrl, $SCHEMA, "Employee Type") || die "error";
$stat_fid = ars_GetFieldByName($ctrl, $SCHEMA, "Status") || die "error";
$first_fid = ars_GetFieldByName($ctrl, $SCHEMA, "First Name") || die "error";
$mid_fid = ars_GetFieldByName($ctrl, $SCHEMA, "Middle Initial") || die "error";
$last_fid = ars_GetFieldByName($ctrl, $SCHEMA, "Last Name") || die "error";
$nick_fid = ars_GetFieldByName($ctrl, $SCHEMA, "Nickname") || die "error";
$emp_fid = ars_GetFieldByName($ctrl, $SCHEMA, "Emp No") || die "error";
$dept_fid = ars_GetFieldByName($ctrl, $SCHEMA, "Dept No") || die "error";
$dom_fid = ars_GetFieldByName($ctrl, $SCHEMA, "HR Domain") || die "error";
$loc_fid = ars_GetFieldByName($ctrl, $SCHEMA, "Location") || die "error";
$phone_fid = ars_GetFieldByName($ctrl, $SCHEMA, "Phone") || die "error";

# input is of form:
# type:status:first:mid:last:nick:empid:dept:domain:loc
#

foreach $i (@entries)
	{
	@F = split(/:/,$i);
        $remid = ars_CreateEntry ($ctrl,$SCHEMA,
		$type_fid, $F[0], $stat_fid, $F[1],
		$first_fid, $F[2], $mid_fid, $F[3],
		$last_fid, $F[4], $nick_fid, $F[5],
		$emp_fid, $F[6], $dept_fid, $F[7],
		$dom_fid, $F[8], $loc_fid, $F[9],
		$phone_fid, "NONE");
	if ($remid)
		{
		print "added Employee entry $remid\n";
		}
	else	
		{
		print "Error $ars_errstr\n adding $i\n";
		last;
		}
	};

# Log out of the server.

ars_Logoff($ctrl);


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ARSperl problem

ARS_CreateEntry

When I run script, I get bad free().
Some entries are added correctly. Some are added with improper 
values in the fields (i.e. middle initial in the "phone" field).

Maybe something wrong with varargs support?

_________________________________________________________________________

Re: Installation Problems

[Joel M. <jm...@ca...>]

>
> But when I tried to run the example programs some error like
>
> ld: _catopen

Under sunos 4.1.x, you need to add -lntc to $ARS_LIBS in Makefile.PL.
You would also need to link in this library if you were just writing
a c program that used the ars api.  libntc should come with libar.

joel

Installation Problems

[<as...@co...>]

Hi!

I was trying to install arsperl and I ran into these problems.
This in on a SunOS 4.1.4 sun4m machine running 2.0.2 Remedy ARS.
The errors were:
 
>cc -c -I/usr/local/remedy/2.0.2/api/include -O -DVERSION=\"1.2\" -DXS_VERSION=\"1.2\" -fpic -I/usr/local/lib/perl5/sun4-sunos/5.002/CORE -g ARS.c
>cc: Warning: Option -fpic passed to ld
 
>cc: Warning: -O conflicts with -g. -O turned off.
>"ARS.c", line 52: syntax error at or near type word "void"
>"ARS.c", line 54: syntax error at or near symbol *
>.
>.
>.
>.
>.
>.
>"ARS.c", line 68: syntax error at or near symbol *
>"ARS.c", line 68: fatal error: too many errors
>>*** Error code 1
>make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `ARS.o'
 
when I edit the Makefile and changed the C compiler to gcc and ran a make
it gave some warings but completed the make.

But when I tried to run the example programs some error like

ld: _catopen

(I am not sure of the exact error. I know for sure these two words were
there)


Any help

Ashfaq

Re: Anybody seen this...?

[Joel M. <jm...@ca...>]

I originally had code to pad entry id's out with 0's in GetEntry,
DeleteEntry, etc.  As you noticed, this is wrong, since come entries
have an ascii prefix (or are not 15 characters).  I fixed this a while
ago by removing the padding code and moving it to a ars_padEntry
function if it is needed.

If you grab a newer version, this should be fixed.  There are also
various other bug fixes.

joel

Anybody seen this...?

[Mark F. <mf...@ma...>]

Here's a strange one:

So far I've used ARSperl to manipulate a whole bunch of my schemas
with a great deal of success.

One schema I've never ('til tonight) queried with ARSperl has
Entry-Ids that take the form "UU123456."  Queries on that schema flat
out don't work.  I turned on the API logger, and discovered that calls
to ars_GetEntry with an Entry-id of "UU0123456" were actually being
passed to Remedy as "0000000UU123456."  Needless to say, Remedy
doesn't care for it.

Is this the zero-padding thing run amok?  (I'm still using a version
of the module from March or so...)  And why does this only happen on
the one schema?

							- Mark
--
"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.  But,
		       in practice, there is."

Re: Welcome to arsperl (fwd)

[Joel M. <jm...@ca...>]

> >   Anyone have the archives for this mailing list?

or, apparently, you can mail ars...@lu....
half of it is gzipped though.

Re: Welcome to arsperl (fwd)

[Joel M. <jm...@ca...>]

> 
> Hello. I am using ARSperl under SunOS.
> 
> Here are the questions:
>   Anyone have the archives for this mailing list?
>   I have started the process of adding the NT (notifier tool)
>    functions. Can I get these rolled back in?

you should now be able to grab
smurfland.cit.buffalo.edu:/pub/utils/Perl/arsperl.archive.gz.  I'll update
it peridically.

I'll gladdly take any code you would like to contribute!  I'm sure
other people would find it useful.

joel

Welcome to arsperl (fwd)

[Shawn R. <rut...@ci...>]

Hello. I am using ARSperl under SunOS.

Here are the questions:
  Anyone have the archives for this mailing list?
  I have started the process of adding the NT (notifier tool)
   functions. Can I get these rolled back in?

Here are the comments:
  How 'bout changing the below message to tell you the address of
  the list?

> Welcome to the arsperl mailing list!
> 
> If you ever want to remove yourself from this mailing list,
> you can send mail to "Majordomo" with the following command
> in the body of your email message:
> 
>     unsubscribe arsperl Shawn Rutledge <rut...@ci...>
> 
> Here's the general information for the list you've
> subscribed to, in case you don't already have it:
> 
> 
> This is the ARSPerl list. This list is meant for users of the Remedy ARS
> and Perl5 integration kit. Question about the kit are welcome.
> 
> The kit is currently tested under:
> 
> 	Solaris 2.x
> 	SunOS 4.1.3
> 	Irix
> 
> 	(some have compiled it under HPUX as well)
> 
> and is available at:
> 
> http://smurfland.cit.buffalo.edu/ARSperl/index.html
> 
> ---
> last update: 11 Jan 96
> 


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Re: Sort option of ars_GetListEntry

[Bruce F. <bru...@tr...>]

The suggestion you gave worked great, thanks.

Vern Hart wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 11 May 1996, Bruce Friedman wrote:
> >
> > I've been trying to get the sort option to work in the
> > ars_GetListEntry function, but have been unsuccessful.  I've tried
> > the example as in the 'usage' html page for ARSperl and ARSweb, but
> > that doesn't seem to work for me.   As I am *not* a very experienced
> > perl programmer, I'm figuring it is something that I'm doing incorrectly.
> > Basically, the example I'm trying to get to work looks like this:
> >
> > $sort_string->{numItems}=1;
> > $sort_string->{sortList}[0]{fieldId}=2;
> > $sort_string->{sortList}[0]{sortOrder}=1;
> > %entries =
> >     ars_GetListEntry($ctrl, $schema, $qual, $max_records, %sort_string);
> >
> > This example should return the field-id and quick list description from my
> > schema sorted by field-id 2, but it doesn't.  I've also tried reversing
> > '$max_records' and '%sort_string' since I wasn't sure about the order,
> > however that didn't work either.  Also, are multiple sort fields allowed?
> >
> > Anyone who can give me some quick pointers on how to get this to work?
> 
> The problem you are running into is probably due to the fact that
> the perl functions keys(), values(), and each() return then entries
> of an associative array in seemingly random order.
> 
> I've just done some experimenting with using @entries instead of
> %entries and that seems to work:
> 
>    @entries = ars_GetListEntry($ctrl, $schema, $qualif, 0,
>       $IPriority,       1,      # sort by priority (ascending)
>       $IIncidnetOwner,  1,      # sort by owner (ascending)
>    );
> 
>    for ($i=0; $i<$#entries; $i+=2)
>    {
>       printf("%d %s\n", $entries[$i], $entries[$i+1]);
>    }
> 
> This sorts first by fieldId $IPriority and then $IIncidnetOwner,
> both in ascending order.  Then you have to use a for loop to
> step through the entries.  (An associative array is just a
> normal array with the elements paired, or associated.)  The for
> loop I have above would have the associative equivalent of:
> 
>    foreach $entry (keys(%entries))
>    {
>       printf("%d %s\n", $entry, $entries{$entry});
>    }
> 
> Oh, and by the way, you misspelled m-e-n-t-o-s.
> Hope this helps!
> 
> Vern
> --
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> 
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Re: Sort option of ars_GetListEntry

[Vern H. <ve...@ey...>]

On Sat, 11 May 1996, Bruce Friedman wrote:
>
> I've been trying to get the sort option to work in the 
> ars_GetListEntry function, but have been unsuccessful.  I've tried
> the example as in the 'usage' html page for ARSperl and ARSweb, but
> that doesn't seem to work for me.   As I am *not* a very experienced
> perl programmer, I'm figuring it is something that I'm doing incorrectly.
> Basically, the example I'm trying to get to work looks like this:
> 
> $sort_string->{numItems}=1;
> $sort_string->{sortList}[0]{fieldId}=2;
> $sort_string->{sortList}[0]{sortOrder}=1;
> %entries =
>     ars_GetListEntry($ctrl, $schema, $qual, $max_records, %sort_string);
> 
> This example should return the field-id and quick list description from my 
> schema sorted by field-id 2, but it doesn't.  I've also tried reversing 
> '$max_records' and '%sort_string' since I wasn't sure about the order, 
> however that didn't work either.  Also, are multiple sort fields allowed?
> 
> Anyone who can give me some quick pointers on how to get this to work?

The problem you are running into is probably due to the fact that
the perl functions keys(), values(), and each() return then entries
of an associative array in seemingly random order.

I've just done some experimenting with using @entries instead of
%entries and that seems to work:

   @entries = ars_GetListEntry($ctrl, $schema, $qualif, 0,
      $IPriority,       1,      # sort by priority (ascending)
      $IIncidnetOwner,  1,      # sort by owner (ascending)
   );

   for ($i=0; $i<$#entries; $i+=2)
   {
      printf("%d %s\n", $entries[$i], $entries[$i+1]);
   }

This sorts first by fieldId $IPriority and then $IIncidnetOwner,
both in ascending order.  Then you have to use a for loop to
step through the entries.  (An associative array is just a
normal array with the elements paired, or associated.)  The for
loop I have above would have the associative equivalent of:

   foreach $entry (keys(%entries))
   {
      printf("%d %s\n", $entry, $entries{$entry});
   }

Oh, and by the way, you misspelled m-e-n-t-o-s.
Hope this helps!

Vern
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None

[Bruce F. <br...@tr...>]

I've been trying to get the sort option to work in the ars_GetListEntry 
function, but have been unsuccessful.  I've tried the example as in the 'usage' 
html page for ARSperl and ARSweb, but that doesn't seem to work for me.   As 
I am *not* a very experienced perl programmer, I'm figuring it is something 
that I'm doing incorrectly.  Basically, the example I'm trying to get to work 
looks like this:

$sort_string->{numItems}=1;
$sort_string->{sortList}[0]{fieldId}=2;
$sort_string->{sortList}[0]{sortOrder}=1;
%entries = ars_GetListEntry($ctrl, $schema, $qual, $max_records, %sort_string);

This example should return the field-id and quick list description from my 
schema sorted by field-id 2, but it doesn't.  I've also tried reversing 
'$max_records' and '%sort_string' since I wasn't sure about the order, 
however that didn't work either.  Also, are multiple sort fields allowed?

Anyone who can give me some quick pointers on how to get this to work?

Thanks
-- 
Bruce Friedman
TriTeal Corporation
Email:  br...@tr...

Re: Ar-0.2alpha

[<li...@re...>]

Joel Murphy wrote:
> 
> > 
> > the other remedy/perl module kit contains only a handfull of functions
> > and work on it doesn't seem to be progressing. the archive that is available
> > is dated nov'95. 
> 
> yeah, yeah! use our module!  :-)  I've been meaning to mail the author
> of the other arsperl so the two could just be combined.  His has a few
> server related functions that I didn't implement.


I'm happy enough using your version, but perhaps you should look
at getting arsperl into the CPAN archive?

If I recall correctly, that's the place where they're storing
all sorts of perl modules, so that you interface with as many C
APIs as possible with perl.  (You may know this, or even know
more about it than I, but I just thought I'd say something about
it, just in case.)


Cheers.

	David

-- 
	David Lindes
	li...@sg...

Re: Ar-0.2alpha

[Joel M. <jm...@ca...>]

> 
> the other remedy/perl module kit contains only a handfull of functions
> and work on it doesn't seem to be progressing. the archive that is available
> is dated nov'95. 

yeah, yeah! use our module!  :-)  I've been meaning to mail the author
of the other arsperl so the two could just be combined.  His has a few
server related functions that I didn't implement.

Re: Ar-0.2alpha

[Jeff M. <jcm...@sm...>]

the other remedy/perl module kit contains only a handfull of functions
and work on it doesn't seem to be progressing. the archive that is available
is dated nov'95. 

Re: Ar-0.2alpha

[Jeff M. <jcm...@sm...>]

>Has anyone seen or had any experience with Rik Harris' perl-remedy
>module?  He's calling it AR and it's available in your nearest CPAN
>archive (such as http://www.ecto.org/CPAN/modules/by-authors/Rik_Harris/).
>
>I just ran across it and it seems to be a definite duplication of
>effort.


i looked at it briefly a while back (just before announcing our version
on the arslist) and it appeared to have only a few functions available.