COBCPY

[Maurizio Bongini]

Hi..
Env Ubuntu 24.04 with Gnucobol installed from Ubuntu repository
cobc (GnuCOBOL) 3.1.2.0
Built Apr 14 2024 07:59:15 Packaged Dec 23 2020 12:04:58 UTC
C version "13.2.0"
loading standard configuration file 'default.conf'
PRB:
Source files to be compiled are in direcotry
~/MyPgm/Cobol
COPY files are in the direcotory
~/MyPgm/Cobol/copy
when i try to compile it soes not find copy files
How to specify to gnucobol this directory ?
thanks in advance for the support

[Mickey White]

Set environmental variable
COBCPY= your copybook directory
COBCPY= ~/MyPgm/Cobol/copy

[Anonymous]

Hi Mickey
Thanks for the quick answer ...
for my knowledge..
investigating .. i issue "cobc --info " command and i get
COB_COPY_DIR : /usr/share/gnucobol/copy
which is the search order ?
1) COB_COPY_DIR
2) COBCPY
thanls for the support
Maurizio

[Mickey White]

Maurizio, Welcome and if you login to the discussion board, your post will not have to be moderated (waiting) and it will post immediately.
I would not really know Which is first,
I put all my (user) copybooks in my dev or prd directory
COB_COPY_DIR : /usr/local/share/gnucobol/copy
env: COBCPY : /home/mickeyw/cpy:/home/mickeyw/prd/cpy

I have no problem there. it searches /home/mickeyw/cpy first before the prd/cby
COBCPY=/home/mickeyw/cpy:/home/mickeyw/prd/cpy

[Eugenio Di Lorenzo]

Hi,
please have a look at chapter 10.1.6 Locating Copybooks of Programmers Guide.

[Maurizio Bongini]

Hi..
My programmers guidi is old ihas not 10.1.6 it just end at 10.1.5 , i 'll download the last version
next
if i put .cpy files to COB_COPY_DIR it works
if i put .cpy files to COBCPY it is unalble to find files
(i added COBCPY ro .bashrc file via export... logoff end then logon)
here the output of cobc --info

---

COB_COPY_DIR : /usr/share/gnucobol/copy
env: COBCPY : /home/bong/MyPgm/Cobol/copy

---

i suspect my version buggy
let me know your opinion
Thanks
Maurizio

[Simon Sobisch]

COBCPY overrides COB_COPY_DIR which is the "real" name. It is possible that the first one goes away with GnuCOBOL 4.

So I suggest dropping COBCPY altogether and set COB_COPY_DIR - but only if you need it.
Commonly it is better to just do something like:

cobc -I $HOME/MyPgm/Cobol/copy -o $HOME/MyPgm/Cobol/bin/some.so $HOME/MyPgm/Cobol/some.cob, or something along
cd $HOME/MyPgm/Cobol/bin; cobc -I $HOME/MyPgm/Cobol/copy $HOME/MyPgm/Cobol/some.cob

[TechInnovator]

You can specify the directory for COPY files using the -I option in the cobc command. Try compiling with:

swift

cobc -I ~/MyPgm/Cobol/copy -x your_program.cob

This tells GnuCOBOL where to look for COPY files. Hope this helps!

[Maurizio Bongini]

Thanks to all for the support.. i fix the problem and it was a my error..
This is the first time i use lubuntu.. in the past i was using debian..
Debian works with root user and normal users ...
Lubuntu works with a normal user, but it is in he sudo list...
I compile my programs using a script, it compiiles executables and move them to system libraries , to perform this second step it neeeds root privilege...
so i issue
sudo sh compall.sh
i modified .bashrc of the user and cobc --info reports COBCPY , but is i issue
sudo cobc --info
it does not show COBCPY because i did not modify bash settings in /etc library
so it works as designed... it was i my error ... i apologyze and renew my thanks to all people supported me
Maurizio