Re: Database Loaders

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Don Hatch (hatch++at++hell.engr.sgi.com)
Tue, 3 Feb 1998 13:18:26 -0800


On Feb 2, 1:07pm, A. Ballard Andrews wrote:
> Subject:
> Subject: Database Loaders
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> A while back I wrote a Performer loader for
> IBM Visualization Data Explorer's format
> which worked fine for about eight months
> until I upgraded to Performer 2.2 from 2.0.2
> I recompiled the loader of course, but the
> only error message I get is unhelpful in
> pointing me toward the source of the
> trouble: My app can't find the loader,
> despite having the usual PFLD and LD
> environment varialble with the path
> to the loader correctly in place.
> My question:
> What else has changed in 2.2 that I
> don't know about which would make
> my app "blind" to the location of
> the dso 032 version of my loader?
>
> Thanks,
>
> B. Andrews
>
> PS the error message is:
> pfdFindConverterDSO() - Could not load DSO for extension "dx"
>
> NB. I repeat: I am not getting this error because my path
> is not set!

If you have PFLD_LIBRARY_PATH set
*and* setenv PFNFLYLEVEL 5,
you should get more verbose messages about
each DSO pathname it is trying
and the reason for failure for each one.

Is it possible that you are using the installed perfly which is now N32,
which doesn't see the loader because it is O32?

Don

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