Re: [Arsperl-users] Transitioned AR Server, ARSPerl no longer connects.

[Eric W. <eri...@gm...>]

So are you saying there is no workaround?

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 12:36 PM, jeff murphy <jcm...@je...>wrote:

>
> On Jan 19, 2012, at 12:50 PM, Eric Wolf wrote:
>
> When I take identical login code from the working 7.5 installation and
> attempt to login to the 7.6.04 release, I get an RPC bind failure (ARERR
> 90).  If I use the exact credentials in the 7.5 user tool, I can login to
> the 7.6.04 installation.
>
> Has this caused anyone else problems?  Am I on the right track in thinking
> I need to recompile the module for the 64 bit windows installation?
>
>
>
> Yes, this is an existing issue. If I take a stub C program that basically
> builds a control struct and sends it to ARVerifyUser() it works just fine
> (when compiled on a 64bit linux system). If I take that exact code and
> paste it into a Perl XS file, it fails with the RPC error (90 Can't Encode
> Arguments). I spent quite a bit of time looking into this. The BMC
> libraries embed the RPC libraries (instead of using the libc routines) so
> stepping into the function doesn't work.. so it's hard to judge exactly why
> it's unable to encode the RPC call. Basically you pass in the control
> struct and the RPC routine translates it to XDR. That's where it seems to
> be failing. I wasn't able to figure out what the exact issue is.. but for
> some reason perl + arlib + 64 bit has some inscrutable interaction that
> arlib + 64bit alone don't have.
>
> jeff
>
>
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