Re: Oracle 9i - issues == Deal breaker

Any work around for this?  We will not standardize on RH ES if we can't
run Oracle 8 and Oracle 9.

Matt Pavlovich

> Message: 9
> Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 08:36:41 +0200
> From: Harald Dunkel <harri-HKixBCOQz3hWk0Htik3J/[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Oracle 9i - issues
> Reply-To: [email protected]
> 
> John Costello wrote:
> > 
> > Finally spent some time on this.  Feh..
> > 
> > I got further "installing"  Oracle 9.2.0.1.0 Enterprise Edition, minus 
> > jre 1.3.1, on Taroon beta 2 (patched as of Sept 8) by doing the following:
> > 
> :
> > Run
> > 
> >         LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.19 /home/oradisks/Disk1/runInstaller
> > 
> > The installer hung without LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.19.  You have to jump 
> > through the usual hoops with groups, user, etc.
> > 
> > I had to ignore make errors on three files under oracle/product/9.2.0.1:
> >         network/lib/ins_oemagent.mk
> >         rdbms/lib/ins_rdbms.mk
> >         ctx/lib/ins_ctx.mk
> > 
> > I also encountered glibc and other errors when OUI tried to runnet8 and 
> > database configuration assistants.  Note that I did not perform the 
> > recompile steps that previously were suggested on the list.
> > 
> > I have not had a chance to troubleshoot these last errors.
> > 
> 
> Probably you stumbled over the __ctype_b problem: Some undefined
> symbols like "__ctype_b" in static libraries built on an old RedHat
> system.
> 
> hello.o(.text+0x19): In function `main':
> : undefined reference to `__ctype_b'
> hello.o(.text+0x78): In function `main':
> : undefined reference to `__ctype_toupper'
> 
> The original implementation of the C macros in <ctype.h> (e.g. isupper(),
> tolower(), etc.) is based upon some lookup arrays in glibc. RedHat has
> changed this implementation for RHL9, 9.1 beta and Taroon. The macros
> are gone; you get real functions for isupper() and tolower() now. IMHO
> this is OK. If you compile the original <ctype.h> with g++ or using
> "gcc -g" for debugging purposes, then you get these functions, too.
> 
> Unfortunately the lookup arrays required by the original macros have
> been removed from RedHat's libc.a, too. This broke compatibility of the
> static application libraries compiled on previous RHL releases or on
> other Linux distros.


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