barach@BBNCC3.ARPA (Dave Barach) (03/02/86)
Re: Problems installing sharable libraries I've had similar problems with a shared library. I've traced the problem to copying a new version of the sharable .EXE file on top of the old one WITHOUT FIRST running INSTALL to delete the known file entry (etc.). The problem manifests itself in the following (bizarre) way: The image activator appears not to correctly fix-up the transfer vectors for SOME OTHER library. It took me a long time to figure this out; I still don't really understand what could be going on. You can tell for sure if you've done yourself in this way by inspecting the global section reference-count with INSTALL. If the count is absurd (usually 65535 -- (unsigned minus-one!)), you've definitely been bitten. The above holds for MicroVMS; I expect it also obtains for regular VMS, too. Someone please help us out and try to explain what's going on... Dave