Regina GCI Failure [Fedora Core 2]

Greetings,

I'm experiencing a little difficulty in gaining access to 'libc'
functionality via Regina GCI on a Fedora 2 platform, and was wondering
whether there might be a known problem, or I am perhaps missing something
obvious [if more information is needed please let me know].

I'm using the following, quite simple, code to tap into the C Library's
'rand' function:

initRand : procedure
rand.calltype = 'cdecl as function with parameters'
rand.return.type = 'integer32'
rand.return.name = 'return value'

rand.0 = 0

err = rxFuncDefine('rand', 'msvcrt', 'rand', 'rand.')

if err \= 0 then
say "Error registering function 'rand'"

return

This code works a treat on a Win32 platform. The near-same code on a Fedora
2 platform [with a slight change to]:

err = rxFuncDefine('rand', 'libc', 'rand', 'rand.')

fails, returning an 'err' value of 40. An 'ERRORTEXT(err)' call indicates
the problem is an 'Incorrect call to routine'.

I thought the problem would be related to the specification of 'libc' as the
target shared library name, so I:

* Checked that '/usr/lib/libc.so' actually existed :) !

* Ensured the 'LD_LIBRARY_PATH' environment
variable was appropriately set and exported

* Tried several variants on the 'libc' name, including:

'libc5', 'libc6', 'glibc', 'glibc2'

as well as specifying a full path:

'/usr/lib/libc'

and also with the '.so' extension

All attempts to no avail: the same error code is being returned.

Any ideas or suggestions ?

Cheers,

Anthony Borla

P.S.

Not that I think it's relevant / related but I'm experiencing *no* problem
accessing functionality in REXX-specific libraries like 'rexxutils' or
'rxsock'

P.P.S.

I first tried the examples from the GCI webpage ['getrlimit' etc] and the
same problem occurred


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