Installating Perl modules for DBIx::Perform
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Need a working installation of Informix.
Downloads
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ncurses http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/ncurses/ncurses-5.6.tar.gz
The downloads below are from http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/
Curses G/GI/GIRAFFED/Curses-1.15.tgz
CursesWidgets C/CO/CORLISS/CursesWidgets-1.997.tar.gz
CursesForms C/CO/CORLISS/CursesForms-1.997.tar.gz
CursesApplication C/CO/CORLISS/CursesApplication-0.2.tar.gz
ExtUtils-AutoInstall A/AU/AUTRIJUS/ExtUtils-AutoInstall-0.63.tar.gz
Pod-Escapes S/SB/SBURKE/Pod-Escapes-1.04.tar.gz
Pod-Simple A/AR/ARANDAL/Pod-Simple-3.05.tar.gz
Test-Simple M/MS/MSCHWERN/Test-Simple-0.70.tar.gz
Test-Pod P/PE/PETDANCE/Test-Pod-1.26.tar.gz
DBI T/TI/TIMB/DBI-1.58.tar.gz
DBD J/JO/JOHNL/DBD-Informix-2007.0226.tar.gz
YAML I/IN/INGY/YAML-0.65.tar.gz
ParseRecDescent D/DC/DCONWAY/Parse-RecDescent-1.94.tar.gz
Extras needed for HPUX:
Scalar-Utils G/GB/GBARR/Scalar-List-Utils-1.19.tar.gz
Test-Harness P/PE/PETDANCE/Test-Harness-2.64.tar.gz
Text-Balanced D/DC/DCONWAY/Text-Balanced-v2.0.0.tar.gz
version J/JP/JPEACOCK/version-0.7203.tar.gz
Optional:
Sort-Versions E/ED/EDAVIS/Sort-Versions-1.5.tar.gz
Time-Hires J/JH/JHI/Time-HiRes-1.9707.tar.gz
*** Do not use Curses-1.16! It has a bug in the function "chgat" ***
Commands in gory detail
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These commands were used on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
(Linux kernel version 2.6.9-55.ELsmp) with Informix SE 7.25,
perl 5.8.5, and gcc 3.4.6.
# cd /usr/include
# rm curses.h ncurses.h form.h menu.h panel.h
$ tar xzf Curses-1.15.tar.gz
$ cd Curses-1.15
$ perl Makefile.PL PANELS MENUS FORMS
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ cd ..
$ tar xzf CursesWidgets-1.997.tar.gz
$ cd CursesWidgets-1.997
$ perl Makefile.PL
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ cd ..
$ tar xzf CursesForms-1.997.tar.gz
$ cd CursesForms-1.997
$ perl Makefile.PL
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ cd ..
$ tar xzf CursesApplication-0.2.tar.gz
$ cd CursesApplication-0.2
$ perl Makefile.PL
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ cd ..
$ tar xzf DBI-1.56.tar.gz
$ cd DBI-1.56
$ perl Makefile.PL
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ cd ..
$ tar xzf ExtUtils-AutoInstall-0.63.tar.gz
$ cd ExtUtils-AutoInstall-0.63
$ perl Makefile.PL; make
$ sudo make install
$ cd ..
$ tar xzf Pod-Escapes-1.04.tar.gz
$ cd Pod-Escapes-1.04
$ perl Makefile.PL
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ cd ..
$ tar xzf Pod-Simple-3.05.tar.gz
$ cd Pod-Simple-3.05
$ perl Makefile.PL
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ cd ..
$ tar xzf Test-Simple-0.70.tar.gz
$ cd Test-Simple-0.70
$ perl Makefile.PL
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ cd ..
$ tar xzf Test-Pod-1.26.tar.gz
$ cd Test-Pod-1.26
$ perl Makefile.PL
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ cd ..
$ tar xzf DBD-Informix-2007.0226.tar.gz
$ cd DBD-Informix-2007.0226
$ perl Makefile.PL
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ tar xzf YAML-0.62.tar.gz
$ cd YAML-0.62
$ perl Makefile.pl
Continue installing YAML.pm? [y]
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ cd ..
$ tar xzf Parse-RecDescent-1.94.tar.gz
$ cd Parse-RecDescent-1.94
$ perl Makefile.pl
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ cd ..
$ tar xjf DBIx-Perform-0.694.tar.bz2
$ cd DBIx-Perform-0.694.tar.bz2
$ perl Makefile.pl
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ cd ..
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HP-UX installation
The setup used for this installation may be atypical and much of the
following may not apply to another HP-UX system.
The system is HP-UX 11.11, with Informix (IBM Informix Dynamic Server
Version 10.00.HC4) in /usr/informix, and perl 5.6.1.
gcc 3.4.6 and ncurses are installed in /usr/local/bin.
Ncurses can be built with the native compiler. But, must make one change.
NCURSES_INLINE does not work with the native compiler. The configuration
script detects that the compiler does support "inline" and sets
NCURSES_INLINE=inline, which causes a compiler error on any line
in the ncurses source that contains NCURSES_INLINE.
Editing the ncurses configuration script to remove the test for inline is
one way around this problem.
$ gzip -d < ncurses-5.6.tar.gz
$ cd ncurses-5.6
Delete these lines from "configure":
if test "$ac_cv_c_inline" != no ; then
cat >>confdefs.h <<\EOF
#define CC_HAS_INLINE_FUNCS 1
EOF
NCURSES_INLINE=inline
fi
$ ./configure;make;make
$ su
# make install
$ cd ..
# cd /usr/include
# rm curses.h ncurses.h form.h menu.h panel.h
$ export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
$ export CURSES_CFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/ncurses"
$ export CURSES_LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib -lncurses"
$ gzip -d < Curses-1.15.tar.gz | tar xf -
$ cd Curses-1.15
$ perl Makefile.PL PANELS MENUS FORMS
$ make
$ su
# make install
$ cd ..
$ gzip -d < Scalar-List-Utils.tar.gz | tar xf -
$ cd Scalar-List-Utils
$ perl Makefile.PL
For HP-UX "make", edit line 282 of Makefile, changing
XSUBPPARGS += -typemap mytypemap
to
XSUBPPARGS = $(XSUBPPARGS) -typemap mytypemap
$ make
$ su
# make install
$ cd ..
Need Test-Harness before Test-Simple.
Need Test-Simple before DBI.
$ gzip -d < DBI-1.56.tar.gz | tar xf -
$ cd DBI-1.56
$ perl Makefile.PL
$ make
$ make
$ su
# make install
$ cd ..
Need "version" before Text-Balanced.
Now things get strange. /usr/informix/bin/esql uses the native compiler.
To use gcc, I backed up /usr/informix/bin/esql to /usr/informix/bin/esql.hp
and copied esql from an installation of Informix 7.25 on a Linux system
to /usr/informix/bin/esql.gcc and modified it.
(Point esql to esql.gcc with ln -s or just copy esql.gcc to esql.)
The differences from /usr/informix/bin/esql.hp are:
$ diff /usr/informix/bin/esql.gcc /usr/informix/bin/esql.hp
26,30c26,30
< CC="${INFORMIXC=/usr/local/bin/gcc} -lxti -lsec"
< CC_TH="${INFORMIXC=/usr/local/bin/gcc} -lxti -lsec"
< CPP="${INFORMIXCPP=CC} "
< CPP_TH="${INFORMIXCPP=CC} "
< STATICFLAGS=""
---
> CC="${INFORMIXC=cc} +DS2.0 +DA1.1"
> CC_TH="${INFORMIXC=cc} +DS2.0 +DA1.1"
> CPP="${INFORMIXCPP=aCC} +DS2.0 +DA1.1"
> CPP_TH="${INFORMIXCPP=aCC} +DS2.0 +DA1.1"
> STATICFLAGS="-Wl,+n"
36c36
< CC_AMD32="-m32"
---
> CC_AMD32=""
215,217c215,217
< SYSLIB="-lc -lm -lcrypt "
< SYSNLIB=""
< TLILIB="/usr/lib/libnsl.a /usr/lib/libnsl.so"
---
> SYSLIB="-lm -lsec -lnsl_s "
> SYSNLIB="-lnsl_s "
> TLILIB="/usr/lib/libnsl_s.a /usr/lib/libnsl_s.sl"
350c350
< THRLIB="$TLIB -lpthread"
---
> THRLIB="$TLIB "
378,379c378,379
< SYSTHRLIB="-lc -lm -lcrypt "
< SYSTHRNLIB="-lpthread"
---
> SYSTHRLIB="-lm -lsec -lnsl_s "
> SYSTHRNLIB=""
439c439
< THRLIB="$TLIB -lpthread"
---
> THRLIB="$TLIB "
442c442
< if [ ! -f /usr/lib/lib$THLIB_SUB.so ]
---
> if [ ! -f /usr/lib/lib$THLIB_SUB.sl ]
804c804
< cpinput=$base.pcp.c
---
> cpinput=$base.pcp
808c808
< cpinput=$base.pcp.c
---
> cpinput=$base.pcp
825c825
< rm -f $base.tmp $base.pcp.c
---
> rm -f $base.tmp $base.pcp
Once the modified esql is in place, then can make the DBD-Informix
Perl module in HP-UX:
$ tar xzf DBD-Informix-2007.0226.tar.gz
$ cd DBD-Informix-2007.0226
$ perl Makefile.PL
$ make
$ su
# make install
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HP-UX stand alone executable using the Perl ARchiver (PAR)
To create executable files with PAR, need these Perl modules:
AutoLoader-5.63
Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.006
IO-Compress-Base-2.006
IO-Compress-Zlib-2.006
Compress-Zlib-2.006
Archive-Zip-1.20
Getopt-ArgvFile-1.11
ExtUtils-CBuilder-0.19
ExtUtils-ParseXS-2.18
Module-Build-0.2808
Module-ScanDeps-0.76
PAR-Dist-0.25
PAR-0.976
PAR-Packer-0.976
A basic stand alone executable is not too difficult.
Inside the DBIx-Perform-0.694 directory, do:
$ pp -z 9 -M Curses/Widgets/Label.pm -M Perform/Widgets/TextField.pm bin/perform
This creates a file "a.out". Replace bin/perform with bin/pformbld for the
other program.
A lighter version that needs perl and 3 of the above modules, AutoLoader,
PAR-Dist, and PAR, can be built by adding "-P" to the options for pp.
This creates a file "a.pl".
However, the target system must have ncurses and the Informix shared libraries
installed.
A complete version that includes the shared libraries is difficult but possible.
It is also not really a good idea, as start up time could be more than 1 min.
First, there are two shared libraries, Informix.sl and Curses.sl, to build.
Informix.sl depends on 6 Informix library files (see pp command at bottom for
the list), and Curses.sl depends on the 4 libraries ncurses, form, menu, and
panel. Easiest (to avoid having to edit the paths hard coded into the shared
libraries with a hex editor) is to copy all ten libraries to the root directory.
Then use a feature of the HP-UX linker, ld: the "+origin" flag.
+origin was added in a patch, so ld must be new enough to support this.
Check the man page for ld to see if "+origin" is present.
Build the Perl modules Curses-1.15 and DBD-Informix-2007.0226, but don't
install yet. Inside blib/arch/auto/ will be Curses/Curses.sl and
Informix/informix.sl respectively. These shared libraries must be linked
differently, with the following commands:
$ ld -b -L/ Curses.o -o blib/arch/auto/Curses/Curses.sl +origin -lpanel +origin -lmenu +origin -lform +origin -lncurses +b \$ORIGIN
$ ld -b Informix.o dbdimp.o dbdattr.o sqltoken.o sqltype.o ixblob.o odbctype.o kludge.o link.o esqlcver.o esqlc_v6.o -L/ +origin -lifsql +origin -lifasf +origin -lifgen +origin -lifos +origin -lifgls -lc -lm -lcrypt /usr/informix/lib/esql/checkapi.o +origin -lifglx -o blib/arch/auto/DBD/Informix/Informix.sl +b \$ORIGIN
The libraries can be checked with chatr (or ldd). All the links should be
$ORIGIN//libncurses.sl and similar. The default way would produce something
like /usr/local/lib/libncurses.sl. Now install these 2 modules.
Next, there is a bug in PAR that prevents added libraries from being run.
They are unpacked into a /tmp/par-username/cache-xxx directory without
execute permission. So, must change PAR-0.976/lib/PAR.pm. After line
884 (which says "$par_temp = $1;"), add the following, then rebuild and
reinstall PAR:
foreach my $i (<$par_temp/lib*.sl>) {
chmod 0755, $i;
}
Then issue the following command to build the PAR standalone executable:
$ pp -z 9 -l /libncurses.sl -l /libpanel.sl -l /libmenu.sl -l /libform.sl -l /libifglx.sl -l /libifgls.sl -l /libifgen.sl -l /libifasf.sl -l /libifos.sl -l /libifsql.sl -M Curses/Widgets/Label.pm -M Perform/Widgets/TextField.pm bin/perform
=========================================================================
"make test" has not been updated, and will likely print many errors.
=========================================================================
USAGE
"make install" installs scripts "pformbld" and "perform".
To run a Perform script "example.per":
1st have appropriate environment variables set for the database.
The crucial one is DB_NAME.
Here is an example of the environment variables needed for Informix 7.2:
$ export DB_HOST=$(hostname)
$ export DBPATH=/usr/informix
$ export DB_NAME=mydatabase
$ export DB_CLASS=Informix
$ export DB_USER=informix
$ export DB_PASSWORD=mydbpasswd
$ export DBD_INFORMIX_USERNAME=informix
$ export DBD_INFORMIX_PASSWORD=$DB_PASSWORD
$ export DBD_INFORMIX_PASSWORD2=$DB_PASSWORD
$ export DBD_INFORMIX_USERNAME2=informix
Might also need to set the terminal:
$ export TERM=vt100
$ export TERMINFO=/usr/lib/terminfo
And these are optional:
$ export BGCOLOR=blue
$ export FIELDBGCOLOR=blue
$ export DBDATE="Y4MD-"
The 2nd step need only be done once. Create "example.yml" with:
$ pformbld example.per
3rd, run the script with:
$ perform example
Lastly, if the script calls external C functions, will need to build
a C executable. For details, read the comments at the head of
Perform/src/perl_perform_tools.c. Once a source file "cfuncs.ec" with
the external functions is compiled to an executable "cfuncs", the
Perform script can be run with those functions with an extra parameter:
$ perform example cfuncs
=========================================================================
Known problems
==============
problems
--------
None known.
minor problems
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Help screen doesn't come up in HP-UX.
After a big slow query, the next query is slow. After fetching something
like 100,000 rows, the next query will be as slow even if it only fetches
1000 rows. If instead, only the smaller query is run, it will be fast.
If the 1st query is run and then the 2nd query is run twice, the 2nd
time on the 2nd query will be fast.
Some queries with lookups can be slow. Each query can actually result
in several queries being made, and some of those fetch all rows from
another table to do a lookup. If the looked up table has many rows,
then the process can be slow.
May have different behavior on fields with the "picture" attribute.
Sperform does not do the "picture" attribute correctly.
trivial problems
----------------
Different behavior if wildcards are put in a "serial only" field for
a query. sperform gives "Error in field" and stays in the field.
DBIx::Perform tries to run the query, gets and reports a DB error,
and returns to the main menu.
Reverse color fields on any screen but the first aren't always displayed
reversed. Depends on the TERM environment variable. (And yet the reverse
coloring always works on the first screen?)
When running under another user acct, somehow Perl was including my
sandbox in its libraries path, @INC. Worked around this by removing
all group and world permission to that directory of mine. Think it's not
a problem with DBIx::Perform, but with the environment.