SUMMARY: DEC COBOL and Digital UNIX 4.0E

From: Robert Benites <benites_at_cs.unca.edu>
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 10:02:28 -0500 (EST)

My original question:

> I recently did a clean install of Digital UNIX 4.0E and then loaded
> DEC COBOL (DCABASE250) from the 10/98 Software Product Library (SPL)
> CD's.
>
> When I ran the IVP for DCABASE250, I received the following error
> messages:
>
> DCABASE250: Starting Installation Verification Procedure (IVP).
> [snip]
> IVP, information: Created scratch directory.
> IVP, information: Compiling and linking.
> ld:
> Warning version mismatch for shared library libcurses.so
> ivp depends on version xpg4 and libcob.so depends on version osf.1
> IVP, information: Running.
> 4928:./ivp: /sbin/loader: Fatal Error: object libcurses.so from \
> liblist in /usr/shlib/libcob.so has version "osf.1", which \
> does not match the found object: /usr/shlib/libcurses.so \
> (with version "xpg4")
>
> DCABASE250, error: INSTALLATION VERIFICATION PROCEDURE FAILED.
> setld: ivp failed.
>
> Any suggestions?

Thanks to Joe Mario <mario_at_zk3.dec.com> for his solution:

> The version of libcurses.so that is needed is now in the
> retired subset. You need to load the OSFOBSOLETE subset.
> Then just "setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /usr/shlib/osf.1"
>
> This should be well described in your release notes for
> DIGITAL UNIX.

This solved my problem.

Please note, the section of the release notes Joe mentions is:

  8.3 Nonconforming Curses Library

   DIGITAL UNIX Version 4.0 included a new X/Open-Compliant
   Internationalized Curses library. This library was not binary
   compatible with previous versions of the DIGITAL UNIX Curses
   library, so compatible binaries (named libcurses.a and
   libcurses.so) were shipped in separate directories for Version
   4.0. In that same release, DIGITAL announced the intent to put the
   compatible binaries into an obsolete subset and subsequently remove
   them in future releases.

   These compatible binaries have been moved into the OSFOBSOLETE425
   subset for Version 4.0D and will be removed in the next major
   release of DIGITAL UNIX.

As you can see, there is no mention of COBOL.

Thanks..

-- Bob Benites
Received on Fri Feb 05 1999 - 15:03:28 NZDT

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