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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sbt.net!news.ia.net!jupiter.planet.net!news.sprintlink.net!ralph.vnet.net!johnsonm From: johnsonm@nigel.vnet.net (Michael K. Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.databases.informix,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Anyone running Informix 4GL/SE on Linux or FreeBSD? Date: 12 Mar 1996 23:13:38 GMT Organization: Tea Conspiracy Lines: 26 Message-ID: <slrn4kc18f.ebo.johnsonm@nigel.vnet.net> References: <systems.16.008BDD9C@systems.pdial.interpath.com> <4hkfn8$51o@helena.MT.net> <31414294.3EC4BD16@gnu.ai.mit.edu> <4i1r49$sk@helena.MT.net> Reply-To: johnsonm@nigel.vnet.net NNTP-Posting-Host: nigel.vnet.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: slrn (0.8.1.1) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:93828 comp.databases.informix:26168 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:15889 On 11 Mar 1996 18:24:09 GMT, Nate Williams <nate@trout.sri.MT.net> wrote: >I already followed up to H.J. in private email, but he didn't understand >the complexity of the problem. It's more work than getting a compiler >and related toolkit running which provides SCO binaries. Well, I can say that when I was doing some SCO development, I spent a few hours setting up a complete SCO development environment on my Linux box and was well rewarded for it. Even the total amount of time I spent was lower after the first few compiles; the SCO box with 16MB of RAM took 1.5 hours to compile what the Linux box with 8MB of RAM took 0.5 hours... And that was a full environment, not just a compiler and related toolkit. I ran it in two modes; a chrooted environment for ease of use some of the time, and with a modified PATH and a few judicious symlinks the rest of the time. The compiler and toolkit executables I used were SCO-native tools, not cross-compiler tools. In symlink/PATH mode, it would have been sufficient for Informix development as well as C development. I've since removed that environment because I don't need it any more (thank goodness...). michaelkjohnson