Dear Tim,
I have run into this problem myself and _not_ implemented the required changes (I also
have access to a DEC Alpha in addition to my SGI, so I just do my DBI work on the
DEC). A friend, who only uses SGIs described these necessary steps to me...
Under recent Irix OS releases, you can compile in one of three modes. This is
described if you type: "man abi". A small excerpt from it reads:
> IRIX supports three ABIs:
>
> o32 The old 32-bit ABI which was standard on IRIX 5 systems.
>
> n64 The 64-bit ABI which was introduced on IRIX 6.0 systems.
>
> n32 The new high performance 32-bit ABI which was introduced on IRIX
> 6.2.
>
>
Oracle ships their libraries in the -o32 format, probably to achieve maximum
compatibility across the Irix family. Most modern SGI programs are either -n32 or
-n64 (a surprising number are -n32, including most of the SGI "Freeware" which
includes the GNU stuff). Perl is included in the Freeware and is usually compiled
-n32 (type 'perl -V' to see the switches used in the build of Perl). As your loader
told you, the different formats are not compatible.
I am told that the solution is to re-build Perl, using the -o32 switch, along with any
additional modules you built from CPAN (which are compiled, ie which contain XS code).
Then you can rebuild DBI and DBD:Oracle and link to the Oracle libraries.
I have built Perl 5.6.0 for Irix now, and had no trouble doing it, however, I built it
with -n32 (again) to be compatible with other things I had on the machine, so I don't
know how the -o32 switch will go.
I also heard a rumour, perhaps on this maillist, that the next release of the Oracle
libraries is to be -n64.
Hope this helps,
Mark
> In attempting to compile DBD-Oracle-1.06 on IRIX 6.5.11 against Oracle 7.3.4
>
> [... deleted ...]
> ld32: FATAL 12 : Expecting n32 objects:
> /d5/app/oracle/product/7.3.4/lib/libclient.a(ofen.o) is o32.
> *** Error code 2 (bu21)
>
> My Oracle libraries seem to be of a different format. I've tried
> changing -n32 to -o32, but of course that just gets me in deeper over
> my head. If anyone has some kind words of guidance for me, I'd
> appreciate it.
>
> Thanks.
> --
> Tim Clinton
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