Re: Installing Oracle 8i (8.1.6) on IRIX 6.5 (6.5.15m)

Did you set your SGI_ABI environment variable to -64? I have also heard of people having to change the make file references to always use mips3. Just a thought. HTH.

Troy Meyerink
Oracle DBA
Raytheon
EROS Data Center

"Jonathan Dimaano" <jonathan.dimaano_at_experian.com> wrote in message news:defe030b.0204250742.17301c9c_at_posting.google.com...
> We have two old Octane's (dual 300's) with Irix 6.5.15m loaded. We
> tried installing Oracle 8i (8.1.6) but kept getting linking errors. It
> installs everything else fine, however, because of the compile errors,
> the db or the listener won't come up.
>
> At first we realized the the linking scripts were calling "fec" when
> the system had "fecc" instead. So we kind'a fixed it by creating a
> symbolic link "fec" to it. Then we started getting a ton of "warnings"
> which we are not too concerned about, but have been getting mips3 and
> mips4 errors. This is where we are stuck right now.
>
> Apparently, when trying to link, it is using mips4 objects when it is
> expecting mips3 objects (That's what the error says). I haven't the
> clue of what that means really. Unfortunately, niether SGI or Oracle
> wouldn't help. And unfortunately for us, there is no Oracle 9i for
> IRIX since they have ceased development of Oracle for Irix.
>
> Can anyone try to explain to me what we are doing wrong here?
>
> Thanx ...
>
> Jojo
Received on Thu Apr 25 2002 - 12:55:15 CDT