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From: charmanp at bolon dot uk dot ml dot com (Paul Charman "LADS" X8283)
Subject: Re: SYBASE variable
Date: Sep 14 1998 9:21AM
>
> Kurt A. Seiffert writes:
> > We ran across this problem when we had compiled Syb-perl against 11.1
> > Open-client included with Sybase 11.5, but then tried to use it where
> > our SYBASE variable pointed at a 10.02 Open-client as with 11.0x.
> >
> > For instance, compile sybperl with SYBASE=/opt/sybase/sybase115.
> >
> > Then run sybperl with SYBASE=/opt/sybase/sybase1102.
> >
> > We got the same error message. The reason had to do with the 11.1
> > Open-Client having a seperate directory for the localization files. If
> > you examine the 11.1 directory structure you can spot the difference. I
> > think we were also able to patch this by placing the a link to the 11.1
> > localization files in the 10.02 directory tree. I don't have the details
> > in front of me.
>
> There are the localization files, and also the config/ directory which
> does not exist under OC 10.x.
>
> So OC is *not* backwards compatible in that sense, but the other
> way usually works (ie having sybperl compiled with the 10.x libs
> directed at using an 11.x installation tree).
>
> Michael
> --
> Michael Peppler -||- Data Migrations Inc.
> mpeppler@mbay.net -||- http://www.mbay.net/~mpeppler
> Int. Sybase User Group -||- http://www.isug.com
>
>
I had the same error message using OC 10.0.2 compiled sybperl with an 11.1.1 installation.
Setting SYBASE to point to the OC 10.0.2 installation directory fixed it...
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