From: Norman@Dunbar-it.co.uk - 2007-06-15 08:24:18
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Hi Helen, first of all, thanks - you are a star! I was having trouble getting the stat1 embedded sql example to link. You mentioned 'embedded' in a refernce to 'real programmers' and that gave me a clue. I was linking with libfbclient.so but a quick ldd on the executables in the bin directory showed that they all linked wil libfbemded.so. A quick change to my gcc commandline and yipee - I have sucessfully compiled and run the stat1 example - I now have the peso in my 'employee' database ! Interestingly, if I link with both the above mentioned libraries, I get a permission denied' error when running stat1. It tells me I cannot access my own database. Hmmm. > As I'm on the Central Coast I'm right in the thick of it all. In > fact, the street where I live, though flooded, has not been > submerged, and we have power here despite a lot of trees > down. Things even dried out a bit on Tuesday-yesterday and I was > able to clear up some of the mess in the back yard. We have another > round of gales and floods forecast for the weekend along this coast. > :-( And for here, it is *cold*, around 12 Celcius at 3 pm and now down to 8. Ok, that lot sounds bad - good luck with it and hopefully it will be over soon. I got an email from New Scientist magazine this morning telling me all about the long running drought in Australia - seems a tad ironic considering current events. > I hope Rodney's folks are OK...I heard there were some pockets of > really bad tree-fall damage around Wamberal and those neighbouring > leafy coastal suburbs... We've only heard about the Newcastle area in the UK - it must have been pretty bad for Australia to get a mention on the BBC (apart from kicking England's but at the Ashes of course !) Cheers, Norm. |