Re: [Firebird-devel] HP-UX port of firebird nearly complete (I hope)

[Martin B. <mar...@co...>]

<posted & mailed>

Hi Mark - 

thanks for the detailed help.  This is just what I need, because even 
though I have general programming and porting experience, I'm a complete 
neophyte when it comes to databases and interbase in particular.

I seem to have taken a step backwards and now am unable to build all 
executables (even though that worked before).

The way I currently build is as follows (please check through this for some 
obvious gotchas). The automatic dependency generation does not work proper 
and does a lot  of complaining. I ignored that for now. Otherwise, I seem 
to have a clean build without any warnings.

- Get & unpack the firebird CVS

- Get & unpack the firebird boot kit

- Make sure everything's clean:
        rm -f `find . -name '*.o'`
        rm -f `find . -name '*.bin'`
        rm -f `find . -name '*.a'| grep -v '\./interbase'`
        rm -f `find . -name 'depends.mak'`
        rm -f `find . -name '*.y' | sed 's/\.y/.c/g'` dsql/parse.c
        rm -fr interbase source/jrd/codes

- Set up the environment variables (I use tcsh)
        unsetenv ISC_USER    # supposedly a good idea for a bootstrap build
        unsetenv ISC_PASSWORD
        setenv INTERBASE `pwd`
        setenv REFDBPATH $INTERBASE/refDatabases
        setenv SHLIB_PATH $INTERBASE/lib
        setenv PATH ${PATH}:${INTERBASE}/bin

- Run the Configure.sh script
        ./Configure.sh PROD HP10

- Wipe the yacc generated file dsql/parse.c which causes HP's 
   compiler to balk (for some reason, Configure.sh keeps copying
   it from somewhere).
        \rm -f dsql/parse.c

- Run make (I had to edit some source files to account for HP cc
   peculiarities. Once it works, I'll be glad to prepare a patch with
   my modifications): 
        make firebird
   There I get  the error (last few lines):

cc  check_msgs.o -o check_messages -Wl,+s -L source/jrd -lnsl -lcur_colr 
-lgds_pyxis -lgds -ldld
chmod 777 check_messages
make[1]: Leaving directory `/eda2/home/local/install/interbase/msgs'
sh -c 'cd source/msgs; check_messages -d master_msg_db -l'
lock manager error
-can't start lock manager
make: *** [msgs] Error 112

I tried build both as root or as a regular user and get the same result. 
The offending command is 
        cd source/msgs; check_messages -d master_msg_db -l

and if I run it from the command line I get the report:
lock manager error
-can't start lock manager

and if Iook in interbase.log I find:
vorlon  Mon Apr 30 16:46:51 2001
        Database:
        lock manager error
        can't start lock manager

Any ideas on this or how to diagnose the problem would be most welcome.

Regards, Martin.




Mark O'Donohue wrote:

> 
> Hi Martin
> 
> First congratulations, :-).
> 
> For getting so far,
> 
> If you have built executables then it has got a fair way.
> 
> The easiest thing is to try and access some of the databases in
> 
> your interbase/refDatabases directory.
> 
> you should have interbase/interbase/bin
> 
> use isql something like
> 
> ../../interbase/bin/isql
> 
>  >connect employee.gdb;
>  >select table_name from rdb$tables;
> 
> 
> I think in one of the readme's there is some simple instructions for
> testing.
> builds_docs/Readme.linux
> 
> You might need to set the env variable $INTERBASE to root of the
> directory you just built to get error messages etc.
> 
> INTERBASE=`pwd`/interbase
> ISC_USER=sysdba
> ISC_PASSWORD=masterkey
> 
> export (all three above).
> 
> excuse me if Im telling you to suck eggs.
> 
> 
> The first mode is using direct access.  You can use a few of the *sql
> scripts in the example directory (empbld.sql I think to get a bit more
> complicated).
> 
> The next step is as a service:
> 
> 
> I presume hp still have /etc/inetd.conf
> You need to add a line in there and in /etc/services.
> 
> Actually you should come pretty close by running the install script
> 
> make runclassicinstall
> 
> Or follow up the shell scripts it runs,
> 
> Let me know how you go - I'll check back here in about 5hrs.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Mark
> Martin Bachtold wrote:
> 
>> 
>> I've been working on a port of firebird to HP-UX 11 and I believe I'm
>> nearly there. I got recent firebird source from the sourceforge CVS and
>> the bootstrap build kit for linux. after some massaging of the source, I
>> was able to compile the code and build the binaries for interbase classic
>> (something in building the examples still failed, but I'll look at that
>> later).
> 
> 
>> 
>> My problem is that I'm clueless on how to test if everything's worked ok.
>> I have not yet been able to properly start the server (and I don't know
>> what executables to call, what options to pass and how to get verbose
>> logging info).
> 
>> 
>> If somebody who shares my interest of getting firebird to run on HP-UX
>> (and make the build more portable in the process) could help me continue
>> from here, I'd truly appreciate it.
>> 
>> Regards, Martin
> 
> 
> 

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