Resend since [EMAIL PROTECTED] is down. Dennis
-----Original Message----- From: Dennis McRitchie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 4:54 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: New oracle-barebone submission I have just uploaded oracle-barebone-9.2.0.1-20040128.nosrc.rpm to the contrib area. The only change from the previous version is a critical documentation change to oracle-barebone.txt: The new instructions now state in part: 3. Also create an empty directory /oracle/OracleHome on the target machine, also owned by oracle/oracle. Then create a symbolic link to it from %{l_prefix}/share/oracle-barebone, e.g., ln -s /oracle/OracleHome %{l_prefix}/share/oracle-barebone The user is then instructed to use this symbolic link as the path to use when installing Oracle 9i, instead of using /oracle/OracleHome. The reason for this change is that libclntsh.so is created at install time (by genclntsh), and records the current ORACLE_HOME as the RPATH to use when loading for libwtc9.so at run time. Both files are subsequently moved to %{l_prefix}/share/oracle-barebone. Furthermore, in programs such as the DBD::Oracle sub-module within the perl-dbi module, when Oracle.so is built, libclntsh.so is explicitly specified, but libwtc9.so is not. It is assumed that ORACLE_HOME will not have changed once Oracle 9i has been installed. So when Oracle.so is subsequently loaded, the ldd (dynamic loader) on Solaris can't find libwtc9.so once it has been moved to %{l_prefix}/share/oracle-barebone. (The dynamic loader on Red Hat Linux 9 also looks in /oracle/OracleHome, but if it does not find it there, it then looks in %{l_prefix}/share/oracle-barebone. So DBD::Oracle works on Linux, but it would be safer if the dynamic loader did not look in /oracle/OracleHome at all.) The advantage of changing things in oracle-barebone rather than in perl-dbi is that all users of libclntsh.so will benefit automatically. Dennis Dennis McRitchie Research & Academic Applications Support (RAAS) Academic Services Department Office of Information Technology Princeton University ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org Developer Communication List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
