Fame Perl Extension 2.1

ftrias@bigfoot.com

Fameperl contains FAME extensions for Perl 5. FAME is a registered trademark of FAME Information Services Inc. Neither this program nor its author are associated with Fame Information Services Inc, nor does the author guarantee this software in any way. This license does not in any way grant you rights to use the FAME software. You must already have a FAME license which authorizes the use of CHLI.

This software requires Perl version 5.003 or above. A simpler, public domain version for perl 4.036 is available from the author This program also requires FAME 7.6 (see FAME 7.5 section below if you are using that version). Extension for TCL and Java (Netscape and Internet Explorer) are also available from the author.

INSTALLATION

  1. Set the FAME environment variable.
  2. Check Makefile.PL to make sure directories are correct. If you want to use the FRB extensions available at the Federal Reserve, add a "-DFRB" to the "DEFINES" section. See DEFINES below for more options. Making changes to the defines may require manually adding or removing entries to the @EXPORTS array in file Fame.pm. Also look at the Makefile.PL file in the LANG, DB, and HLI directories.
  3. Extract the Makefile by running "perl Makefile.PL".
  4. Run "make".
  5. If everything builds OK, run "make test" to perform rudimentary tests.
    1. IMPORTANT: If you have problems running the test, particularly if you get an "Illegal Instruction" or "Bus Error" message, then you may have to patch the Perl executable to remove a name ("Errors") which conflicts with the Fame library. Run "make patchperl" and try "make test" again. This patch should not affect the functionality of perl or any extensions.

      SOLARIS: "Error" does not have a "_" in front of it. You will have to run "make patchsolaris".

    2. If you still have problems, you may be patching the wrong perl executable. Make sure that both the installed perl and the one in the "build" directory are the patched version by looking at the time/date of the files.
  6. To install everything into production, you may run "make install".

MAKEFILE DEFINES

     FRB        Include FRB extensions.
     HLILIB     Include $FAME/demo/hli/chlilib.c support which
                includes various utilities to get text representations
                for errors, frequencies, etc.
     HLI75      Include support for new Fame 7.5 functions.
     HLI76      Include support for new Fame 7.6 functions.
     UNSUP      Include undocumented and unsupported functions.

DOCUMENTATION

"Fame.pod" contains the current manual. There is also a file "Paper.doc" which contains an introductory paper about the perl 4 interface, but not any of the new object-oriented features added to the perl 5 interface. "HLI/usage.doc" contains a summary of the HLI package functions.

VERSIONS

7.5 : To use FAME 7.5 you may have to modify some of the files during the make process. After step 4 ("make"), you will probably get an error such as "famecons.i: syntax error at or near word 'extern'." You will have to find the line where the error occurred, which will probably be in a "case" statement, and remove it. Then type "make" again.

7.7 : The file $FAME/demo/hli/chlilib.c has more symbols than are given in $FAME/hli/hli.h. You must remove all the "case" entries in chlilib.c which deal with FlexLm errors (they begin with "HFLX"), or not set HLILIB in HLI/Makefile.PL.

This package has been built on SunOS and Solaris with FAME versions 7.0 to 7.7 with minor changes. Contact the author for specifics if you are having trouble. This package has also been built for Windows NT and 95.

OTHER INFO

This software is being enhanced all the time in order to fix bugs, keep up with FAME and perl changes, or add new features. If you use this software, please let the author know, so he can help keep you up-to-date. The author also provides installation assistance, classes, and contract programming (please ask for information about these services specifically). Also, the author keeps an older version of this software for TCL.

HLI.PH

hli.ph is obsolete and may not be supported in future releases of this software. It is provided now for compatability with older versions of fameperl.

If you wish to maintain hli.ph in a different directory than the original perl libraries, you may do one of two things:

  1. You may wish to modify the perl 5 config.h file. First, run "Configure" and "make depend". Then, assuming a directory of /usr/local/lib/perl for your perl libraries, and /usr/local/lib/fameperl for you fameperl specific files such as hli.ph. Modify the line which would read:

#define PRIVLIB "/usr/local/lib/perl5"

to read:

#define PRIVLIB "/usr/local/lib/perl5:/usr/local/lib/fameperl"

2) You may also use the PERLLIB or PERL5LIB environment variable.

MODULES LIST

Part 2: 7) Database Interfaces (see also Data Types)

Fame bdcO FAME database and language TRIAS

Part 4: 1) Information / Contact Reference Details

TRIAS Fernando Trias <ftrias@bigfoot.com>