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On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 05:38:17PM -0400, William Fishburne wrote:
> Red Hat 9 (Shrike)
> Perl 5.8.0 (from the RedHat install)
> Oracle 9.0.1 (installed onto RedHat 8, but just kept as we migrated up to 
> RedHat 9).
[snip]
> I have a sneaking suspicion that my problem lies in installation of Oracle 
> in an older version of Red Hat.

First things first: Hopefully you are not planning to deploy this setup in
production.  If you do, be aware that the only Oracle-certified version of
Redhat for the 9.x series at this time is Advanced Server 2.1.  Oracle support
will politely ignore you if you're running anything else.

But even I use this sort of setup for development.  My experience with running
Oracle on a non-certified Linux is that the server itself runs fine (once you
manage to get everything to relink properly), but pretty much everything else
(Enterprise Manager, etc.) experiences spurious errors or is completely
inoperable.  So hopefully you're not wanting to use any of that either.

Now that the *caveat emptor* stuff is out of the way, your first problem is
Redhat 9.  Oracle can't be relinked *at all* under Redhat 9, because of the
broken way Oracle does its linking (this is in Redhat's bugzilla, #87684).

However, you can get it linking on Redhat 8 with a bit of trickery, and actually
the error you show looks like the RH8 linking error than the RH9 one (I've 
sorted through both personally).  Dunno, perhaps since you upgraded the missing
piece is still installed -- I know it doesn't work at all on a from-scratch RH9 
install, though.  Anyway, this is how to get Oracle to relink on RH8:

  1. Open OH/bin/genclntsh.
  2. Find the SYSLIBS define.
  3. Add " -L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2 -lgcc" to it.
  4. Run genclntsh to relink the client libraries.

Try it on your RH9 and see if it works.  If it doesn't, then what you'll 
probably have to do is get a clean RH8 box, do all the building there, then copy
the resulting binaries to the RH9 box.  The binaries still run on RH9, you just
can't do the linking there.

Hope this helps.

- -- 
Stephen Clouse <stephenc@theiqgroup.com>
Senior Programmer/DBE, Core Technology Developer
The IQ Group, Inc. <http://www.theiqgroup.com/>

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