[DB-SIG] Unable to complete install of informixdb

[Stephen J. Turner]

On Monday, September 21, 1998 6:40 PM, Erik Bartels wrote:


>>>> import os
>>>> os.environ['INFORMIXDIR'] = '/usr/informix'
>>>> import informixdb
>Traceback (innermost last):
>  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>  File "informixdb.py", line 16, in ?
>    raise ImportError, "Cannot locate C core module for informix db
interface."
>ImportError: Cannot locate C core module for informix db interface.
>>>> import _informixdb
>Traceback (innermost last):
>  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>ImportError: ld.so.1: python: fatal: libixsql.so: open failed: No such file
or directory
>>>>
>
>Still not working.  Any other ideas.

It sounds like the dynamic loader can't find the directories in which the
Informix runtime libraries are installed.  Be sure that $INFORMIXDIR/lib and
$INFORMIXDIR/lib/esql are listed in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment
variable.

- sturner