Re: Oracle on Linux: initial findings

Thanks for the update.

I haven't got my EAP CD yet so I can't comment. I know there's three patches already on the Technet. You may want to see if the libs are fixed.

• sooz

Thomas Dunbar wrote:
>
> I got the Oracle 8.0.5 for Linux prerelease today..a few
> quick notes
>
> 1) install goes smoothly (using redhat 5.1 based Linux)
> 2) rdbms works fine as does net8 .. can connect remotely
> to and from it
>
> so far, great. however, in this prerelease
>
> 3) OCI support incomplete..for example no oracle.mk, oratypes.h, etc
> (if one takes that group of *.h files from another platform, one can
> get various oracle-www gateway stuff to compile (eg. DBD-Oracle, MOWI2)
> but they dump core when run).
> so until there's a full OCI development env, one can't do
> www-based development with Oracle on Linux. hopefully
> that will be fixed soon
>
> thomas
Received on Thu Sep 24 1998 - 23:34:01 CDT