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

[Jon Adams]

yep /compat/linux/bin/bash

here is my environment:

su-2.04$ env
PWD=/data/oracle
ORACLE_SID=NITRO
PAGER=more
FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES
HOSTNAME=east
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/ora/app/lib
ENV=/data/oracle/.shrc
BLOCKSIZE=K
USER=oracle
LS_COLORS=no=00:fi=00:di=01;34:ln=01;36:pi=40;33:so=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=01;05;37;41:mi=01;05;37;41:ex=01;32:*.cmd=01;32:*.exe=01;32:*.com=01;32:*.btm=01;32:*.bat=01;32:*.sh=01;32:*.csh=01;32:*.tar=01;31:*.tgz=01;31:*.arj=01;31:*.taz=01;31:*.lzh=01;31:*.zip=01;31:*.z=01;31:*.Z=01;31:*.gz=01;31:*.bz2=01;31:*.bz=01;31:*.tz=01;31:*.rpm=01;31:*.cpio=01;31:*.jpg=01;35:*.gif=01;35:*.bmp=01;35:*.xbm=01;35:*.xpm=01;35:*.png=01;35:*.tif=01;35:
MACHTYPE=i386-redhat-linux-gnu
MAIL=/var/spool/mail/oracle
INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc
EDITOR=vi
ORACLE_BASE=/ora
ORACLE_HOME=/ora/app
SHLVL=1
LOGNAME=oracle
SHELL=/compat/linux/bin/bash
HOSTTYPE=i386
OSTYPE=linux-gnu
HISTSIZE=1000
HOME=/data/oracle
TERM=vt100
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
_=/usr/bin/env


Scott T. Hildreth wrote:

>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.
>>>
>>> 
>>>
>>>      
>>>
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