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From: gnb@bby.oz (Gregory N. Bond)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: INGRES ABF & multi-architectures.
Message-ID: <GNB.89Dec4115342@baby.bby.oz>
Date: 4 Dec 89 00:53:42 GMT
Sender: news@melba.bby.oz.au
Organization: Burdett, Buckeridge and Young Ltd.
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We run INGRES 5.1 on Sun3 and Sun4 gear, and use ABF to develop
applications.  We just got our first Sun4, and are looking for a way
to manage the dual architecture ABF binaries.  It seems there is no
way to use abf on the one databse on the one application to build
binaries for multiple architectures.

Deleting the *fo.c files and ~ingres/dbname/appname/* files and
remaking doesn't seem to work - the resulting binaries seem to get the
wrong architecture objects from somewhere and coredump.

The best answers that the local RTI support could come up with (after
several weeks and a couple of calls) are:

1)  Touch _every_ frame and procedure in the application (using vifred
    and the editor) and remake the image each time you want to change
    architectures.  Gak!

2) Use copyapp to copyout the application, delete the application, and
   copy it back in for the other architecture each time you want to
   change architecture.  The copyin will give stacks of error messages
   as the frames are multiply defined

3) Have two different applications using the one source directory, one
   for each architecture.  Changes will have to be made to both
   applications (although forms and text editing can be done once).

4) Use a separate database for the other architecture.  This is even
   worse than 3) and the forms will have to be modified twice.

_Surely_ there must be a better way.  What do other heterogenous sites
do about this?
--
Gregory Bond, Burdett Buckeridge & Young Ltd, Melbourne, Australia
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