Re: HPUX 10.20 and Oracle 7.3 shared library errors

c918531_at_tycho.gbar.dtu.dk (Mikkel Lauritsen) writes:
>Oracle 7.3.2.2 supplies both dynamically and statically linked versions of
>its access libraries. When linking a small example program from Oracle with
>the static libraries everything works okay, but the dynamically linked version
>stops cold with a bus error.

I've seen this -- In the case I saw, its an Oracle shared library bug -- and I think the version I saw it in was 7.3.2.1 -- when the customer upgraded to 7.3.2.3 it went away..

Oracle was creating the shared library in some weird way -- possibly one of the objects wasn't PIC or something.

>I'd say this looks like an error in the dynamic libraries, but since it seems
>to run okay on Solaris and IRIX chances are that HPUX is partially in error.

There's a bug in their shared library build environment.

I tested it by compiling _their_ sample apps and then changing it to link dynamically -- their sample apps immediately core dumped.

I also know that some people have called Oracle to get the fix and the support engineer doesn't recognize it as a known problem -- but it _is_ a known problem.

Good luck!

Rich

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