Oracle 8i (8.1.7), FreeBSD 5.1 i386 installation questions

[Jon Adams]

Dima Dorfman wrote:

>[Jon Adams]
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>>>>bash-2.04$ ./setup_stubs.sh
>>>>Setting up patch files...done.
>>>>Patching makefiles as necessary:
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>>>>Rebuilding client shared library...ld: cannot find -ldl
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>[Dima Dorfman]
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>>>You should be compiling and running everything Oracle-related under
>>>Linux emulation, and if you installed the linux_devtools port, you
>>>should have libdl in /compat/linux/lib. I suspect that either you
>>>aren't running under Linux emulation or that you don't have that port
>>>installed.
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>[Jon Adams]
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>>I do have libdl
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>>do I need to put a -L somewhere in the oracle files, do I need to modify
>>my LD_INCLUDE_PATH ?
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>/lib is almost certainly already in the library path. The most likely
>explanation is that the compiler (or linker, or whatever is trying to
>access libdl) isn't running under Linux emulation. Even if you start
>something from a compat shell, it can break out of the emulator if
>something tries to run a FreeBSD binary. We need to find the command
>that it's trying to run when it fails. Find the script that it's in (it
>might be setup_stubs, but it might be another one) and run it with the
>-x option to sh to show the commands being executed. 
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I set my path to /compat/linux/bin:/compat/linux/usr/bin and noticed 
that the linker ld itself doesnt exist in the linux compat....
perhaps this is the problem?

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>Dima.
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