Re: 32bit oracle 8.0.5 installer hangs on 64bit HPUX-11 (V2200)

From: Babette Turner-Underwood <babettet_at_you.cant.spam.me>
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 14:37:35 GMT
Message-ID: <PCU62.1812$5n1.14065087@news.magma.ca>

Richard Lloyd wrote in message ...
>In article <01HW.B27D9D760000467601BEAE20_at_news.wxs.nl>,
>"Ronald" <ronr_at_wxs.nl> writes:

[snipped]
>
>Another thing I did was to create .sl shared libraries out of the 90-odd
>.a's that are shipped with Oracle - when I relinked the executables, I got
>*massive* savings (both in disk space and RAM) with the binaries and
everything
>ran perfectly, so I've got to question why Oracle don't ship .sl's with all
the
>.a's ! Are they co-conspiraters with RAM and disk manufacturers ? :-)
>
>If anyone's interested, I can post up the .a to .sl converter script - my
>"oracle" server binary is now under 1MB in size - is this a world record ?
:-)
>
>Richard K. Lloyd, E-mail: rkl_at_connect.org.uk
>Connect, WWW: http://www.connect.org.uk/
>Liverpool University,
>Merseyside, England,
>Great Britain.

I assume that a ".sl" is a "shared libarary". I have not heard of them before
(Relatively new to this UNIX level stuff). What are the advantages (other than
size) and disadvantages of using them?

I am certainly interested in seeing that ".a to .sl converter script".

Babette Turner-Underwood, TMI Communications babettet_at_tmi.ca.NOSPAM (remove appropriate part to e-mail me) Received on Wed Nov 25 1998 - 08:37:35 CST