Re: Installing Oracle 9i on RH AS 3

[Werner Puschitz <wp puschitz com>]

On Sun, 26 Oct 2003, Jakub Jelinek wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 08:11:55PM -0400, Werner Puschitz wrote:
> > 
> > I got very far with my Oracle 9i installation on Taroon. Once I'm done I 
> > will document all the workarounds on my website
> > http://www.puschitz.com/InstallingOracle9i.shtml.
> > 
> > But there is one error which looks like a bug to me. The versioning in 
> > libgcc seems to be messed up:
> > 
> > gcc  -o /opt/oracle/product/9.2.0/rdbms/lib/oracle
> > ...
> > /usr/bin/ld: /opt/oracle/product/9.2.0/rdbms/lib/oracle: hidden symbol 
> > `__fixunssfdi' in /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2.3/libgcc.a(_fixunssfdi.oS) 
> > is referenced by DSO
> > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> > make: *** [/opt/oracle/product/9.2.0/rdbms/lib/oracle] Error 1
> > 
> > Can someone from Red Hat please look at this?
> 
> Yes, it looks like a bug, but not in gcc or linker.
> The above error means that one shared library oracle is being linked
> against was probably linked with either ld -shared instead of gcc -shared,
> or with gcc -shared -nostdlib.  Certainly the shared library was not linked
> against -lgcc.

Thanks Jakub.
Later I figured out that this can't be a bug in gcc or linker.
I have now successfully installed an Oracle9i database on RH AS 3 and I 
will provide the instructions on my website.

Werner