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

[Scott T. Hildreth]

Are you running as Oracle user from the linux shell?  

On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 06:13, Jon Adams wrote:
> Dima,
> 
>     Thanks for the response, but I do have libdl
> 
> east# ls -l /compat/linux/lib | grep dl
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    65473 Mar  6  2003 libdl-2.2.4.so
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel       14 Jul 26 15:25 libdl.so.2 -> libdl-2.2.4.so
> 
> for some reason its not seeing it though.  One of the first things I did 
> post-install was enable linux emulation and install dev-tools,
> needed it to get my J2SDK and Tomcat up and running.
> 
> I also rebuilt the kernel with the Oracle settings for Shared Memory and 
> Semaphores
> 
> do I need to put a -L somewhere in the oracle files, do I need to modify 
> my LD_INCLUDE_PATH ?
>  
> my paths looks like this:
> PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/data/oracle/bin:/compat/linux/bin:/compat/linux/sbin:/compat/linux/usr/bin:/compat/linux/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/ora/app/bin
> SSH_TTY=/dev/ttyp1
> 
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/ora/app/lib
> 
> my oracle sources are in /data/oracle/Disk1, I am installing it in /ora
> 
> I am hoping to move to 5.3 as soon as I get the chance...  but I need 
> the DBMS online like yesterday
> 
> I am thinking this is something small, but since I am a recent convert 
> to FreeBSD, I just dont know where to look to fix it.
> 
> Dima Dorfman wrote:
> 
> >Jon Adams <jkadams at computer.org> wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>bash-2.04$ ./setup_stubs.sh
> >>Setting up patch files...done.
> >>Patching makefiles as necessary:
> >>    
> >>
> >...
> >  
> >
> >>Rebuilding client shared library...ld: cannot find -ldl
> >>
> >>
> >>Now I know -ldl is for the dlopen function in Linux, which are in a
> >>different place than in FreeBSD,
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >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.
> >
> >  
> >
> >>BTW: please do not tell me to try Oracle 9i, or that I should use
> >>another version of FreeBSD, or something like that, I am locked in this
> >>hardware and OS, so I need to get it to work with the current setup as
> >>much as possible.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >If you're stuck then you're stuck, but I really would recommend trying
> >to at least get away from 5.1, which really wasn't a production-
> >quality release.
> >
> >  
> >
>