Re: Installing Oracle on SCO 5.0.4

David, I'll be more specific. Your mail shows at least 2 problems; one is "ar not found" - have you installed the SCO Development System on your server? Oracle say it is possible to rebuild Oracle binaries withough it, but I am not clear how. We always buy and install the Development System on any Oracle system we build - it's needed for Pro*C development/deployment anyway.

Your second problem is your libraries not found message. What I am saying is that very likely these libraries are on your system. They certainly will be if you install the Development System fully, which includes the TCP/IP development libraries (needed for relinking Oracle products with SQL*Net support).

The root cause is that you can't idld _any_ programs on 5.0.4 unless you get a fix which I don't even know exists yet. It is not just Oracle products which have this problem, hence my example hello.c program.

Occasionally (but as far as I know not in this case) Oracle make a bad call on what libraries they expect to be on target machines, e.g. they develop on a box with a layered product their customers haven't purchased and this is not spotted till it reaches the customer. In this case, Oracle have to sort us out!

In article <33E21C4B.40EC_at_ibm.net>, David Chamberlain <david.chamberlain_at_ibm.net> writes
>I really don't care who's fault it is. I would be happy if someone with
>a 5.0.0 system would look and see if they have those two files
>(libmdknl.a and libmdhh.a), send them to me and tell me what directory
>to put them in.
>
>Then I could actually evaluate the problem.
>
>Thanks,
>David Chamberlain
 

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