Ben,

it does not matter what rpms are installed.
The CPU running $INFORMIXDIR/etc/brand binary program
does not understand some of the machine instructions.
These are i686 specific instructions which got created by
the compiler because of i686 optimization was switched
on at compile time.

Yes, it is documented ;-)
See machine specific notes:
1. This product was built on RedHat Linux 7.2 for i686 compatible
processors ...

HTH,

Karl
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Karl Ostner
IBM Informix Development Munich
Information Management
IBM Software Group
e-mail: kostner@de.ibm.com



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Karl,

> seems your processor does not match the requirement of Pentium 2/Pro
> (i686).

I am sure you know more about these things than me but can I ask how you
can ascertain this from his post? He says he has installed an i586.rpm
which is Intel architecture for Pentium or above. SuSE generally do not
do i686.rpm files so for Pentium II or above you would use the i586.rpm.

IDS 9.40.UC5 works straight out of the box for me with SuSE 9.2 IA32.
There is an issue with compat library but this only affects ISA. I
solved this by using the compat library from SuSE 9.1 and then
reinstalling the less comprehensive SuSE 9.2 compat library on top of it.

Ben.


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