Re: installing oracle 9i on a Red Hat 7.1 with 2.4.4

Last weekend i could test this myself.
This fix works on an out of the box RedHat 7.1 installation. This means that there is no need to downgrade binutils anymore!!!!!!!! Use this to your own good.

Berno

Berno Strik schreef:

> Hi Sandor,
>
> The following is from Oracle Metalink.
> Try this and please let the newsgroup now if it works.
> If it works there is no need to downgrade binutils!!!!
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> fact: Oracle Server - Enterprise Edition 9.0.1
> fact: Intel Based Server LINUX
> fact: RedHat 7.1
> symptom: Installation fails
> symptom: Error during linking
> symptom: ins_plsql.mk
> cause: BUG 1843232.
> Versions of ld prior to version 2.11 ignored the "-z defs" flag. ld
> version
> 2.11 and later have the ability to use this flag. Because of this
> the genclntsh script
> fails to produce the libclntsh.so library on a machine running ld >
> 2.11.
>
> The "-z defs" is set in the variable LD_SELF_CONTAINED in the
> genclntsh script.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> fix:
>
> When receiving this error during installation,
> follow these steps:
>
> 1. Open a new console window on the host as the installation user.
> 2. Set up the Oracle environment (i.e. ORACLE_HOME).
> 3. Make a backup of the $ORACLE_HOME/genclntsh script.
> 4. Remove the ${LD_SELF_CONTAINED} flag from the ld command in the
> 'Create
> Library' section.
> 5. Run the genclntsh script.
> 6. Click on 'Retry' in the Universal Installer
>
> The installation will now proceed.
>
> This should be fixed in 9.0.2
>
> Sandor Feher schreef:
>
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I've got a problem with the subject. During the installer compiling
> > the database shared objects the following error message appearing:
> > Failed to install (or something like that..)
> > /opt/oracle/OraHome1/plsql/lib/ins_plsql.mk
> > (help/retry/ignore/cancel)
> >
> > I've suffered similar problems with 8.1.6 but there are a patch which
> > could solve it. Any suggestions are welcome!
> >
> > Please drop a mail to my mail address too: sfeher_at_bluesystem.hu
> >
> > tia and bye ,Sanya
Received on Mon Oct 08 2001 - 02:15:10 CDT