Pascal Bleser wrote: > Indeed, you'd best run Oracle on SLES.
True, SLES is the "safe" choice, and that's what my large SuSE customers are running - but I often do work for some smallish, cost-sensitive shops that are running SuSE Pro, and it works quite well for them. This idea that SuSE Pro is "only for hobbyists" is a new idea that Novell seems to be pushing - in the old days SuSE Pro was known as a stable, well designed, polished distro, which "just worked" out of the box. > Now, one solution would be to compile GCC 3.x yourself, that's at least > how I do it to have Oracle on some development boxes. > > It's quite easy to do actually. Just grab > > mkdir -p ~/download/gcc > cd ~/download/gcc > wget \ > http://ftp.belnet.be/mirrors/ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcc/gcc-3.3.6/gcc-core-3.3.6.tar.bz2 > tar xf gcc-core-3.3.6.tar.bz2 > cd gcc-3.3.6 > ./configure --prefix=/opt/gcc-3.3.6 > make > su -c "make install" > > That's it. > Before you start Oracle's runInstall, make sure to put GCC 3.3.x in the > path, first: > > export PATH=/opt/gcc-3.3.6/bin:$PATH > export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/gcc-3.3.6/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH Excellent, this makes perfect sense, I'll try it Joe --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
