Exim + Oracle on FreeBSD - a complication

[Oliver Brandmueller]

Hi.

On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 12:57:29PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> /usr/bin/ld: warning: libc.so.6, needed by
> /shared/oracle9/u01/app/oracle/product/9.2.0.1.0/lib/libclntsh.so, may
> conflict with libc.so.5
> 
> Now from what I can see, libc.so.6 comes from the linux-devtools while
> libc.so.5 is native to FreeBSD.
> I compiled, but there really seems to be a problem which I "think" is a
> result of the warning above: I get so much garbage outputted when I run
> even a simple test like `exim -bV`. In trying to isolate the problem,
> I did separate build while switching on options one by one. I discovered
> the following  
> 
> (a) Exim+MySQL+Perl	= OK.
> (b) Exim+Oracle+Perl 	= NOT OK.
> (c) Exim+Oracle+MySQL	= NOT OK.
> 
> Not okay means I see the outputted garbage! I'm not an expert but I am
> naively attributing this to the libc conflicts;)

Just a guess:

You can't link a linux lib to a native FreeBSD program. So, if you
wanted to link the oracle libs in, did you remember to compile exim with 
linux devtools as a linux binary then? Otherwise it won't work.

- Oliver

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