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How You Install New Data Types in a UNIX Environment
To install your user-defined data types, the DBMS, RCP, and JSP executables must be relinked (loaded) using the iilink command. The iilink command prompts for the object modules to be linked into these executables. At the prompt, specify a list of object modules, an archive library, or, if your system supports it, a shared object.
On systems which support shared object access, avoid the -l form of shared object access. The executables being linked are setuid programs, and the combination of shared objects with setuid programs leads to a number of complications in dealing with multiple installations.
For the purpose of testing, you can link only the DBMS by specifying the -dbms flag when you issue the iilink command. When you link to create your production executable, omit the -dbms flag.
The iilink utility prompts for an extension for the executable filename. The default is to create standard executables. For test purposes you can add an extension to the file names. For example, if you specify “test” as the extension, iilink creates the executable iidbms.test instead of iidbms.
The iilink command can only be run by the ingres user.
Optionally, demo user-defined data types can be installed using the iilink utility.
Last modified date: 01/30/2023