Having just built the DBD-Oracle on IRIX 6.5 last night, I can
comment a little.
Oracle 8.0.x libraries are o32. Oracle also provides what it
calls the Oracle SGI N32 Client Toolkit, which are 8.0.5
libraries that are n32.
Oracle 8.1.x libraries are n64, but again, Oracle provides an N32
client toolkit (downloadable from Metalink), which includes n32
8.1.6 libraries.
I had to make some mods to the makefile to get it to compile,
using the sample makefile that comes with the n32 toolkit, but it
was fairly straightforward.
-- Tom
Thomas A. La Porte
DreamWorks SKG
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On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Mark Dalphin wrote:
>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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