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

[Scott T. Hildreth]

yes that would be a problem, should be in /compat/linux/usr/bin.  Did
you install linux-devel?  (Sorry I forgot if you indicated that
already.)

On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 17:19, Jon Adams wrote:
> Dima Dorfman wrote:
> 
> >[Jon Adams]
> >  
> >
> >>>>bash-2.04$ ./setup_stubs.sh
> >>>>Setting up patch files...done.
> >>>>Patching makefiles as necessary:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>...
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>>>Rebuilding client shared library...ld: cannot find -ldl
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >
> >[Dima Dorfman]
> >  
> >
> >>>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.
> >>>      
> >>>
> >
> >[Jon Adams]
> >  
> >
> >>I do have libdl
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >...
> >  
> >
> >>do I need to put a -L somewhere in the oracle files, do I need to modify
> >>my LD_INCLUDE_PATH ?
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >/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. 
> >
> ...
> 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?
> 
> >
> >Dima.
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> 
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