oracle 9.2 rtsora build problem

First up, apologies if my wording of this is incorrect, I'm not a DBA, I'm basically looking for a greater understanding of a current situation. The system in question is AIX 5.2 (64-bit kernel mode) with Oracle 9.2.0 (again, 64-bit) and I have a requirement for Oracle Pro*COBOL to be installed on the system (specifically for use of rtsora), however a 32-bit version of rtsora is needed, also MicroFocus COBOL 2.2 (32-bit) with fixpack 8 has also been successfully preinstalled. The requirements may seem strange I know, but they are a requirement of the software that is to be run.

The DBA tasked with the installation of Oracle Pro*COBOL reported that the linking or rtsora failed, and that this is due to a bug which will be fixed once the 9.2.0.6 fix pack is applied.

 From the relevant make.log:

/usr/ccs/bin/make -f ins_precomp.mk relink ORACLE_HOME=/oracle/local/product/9.2.0 EXENAME=rtsora Linking /oracle/local/product/9.2.0/precomp/lib/rtsora cob32: bad magic number:
/oracle/local/product/9.2.0/precomp/lib/cobsqlintf.o make: The error code from the last command is 1.

However, when I checked in $ORACLE_HOME/bin I found:

merchadm_at_pmkmerdev>file rtsora
rtsora: executable (RISC System/6000) or object module merchadm_at_pmkmerdev>file proc
proc: 64-bit XCOFF executable or object module not stripped

The first question I have is, is the failure seen in make.log just in the build of the 64-bit rtsora executable (and failing due to a 32-bit COBOL compiler being present on the system?), and what produced the 32-bit rtsora executable which is present (it was *not* present at all before this installation took place)? The 32-bit rtsora which is present also seems to be functioning correctly (although I carried out only very basic testing).

Next up, the DBA is reporting that the 32-bit precompiler libraries are not present. However:

user_at_dev>cd $ORACLE_HOME/precomp/lib32
user_at_dev>ls -l
total 5432
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 13772 Apr 26 2002 cobsqlintf.o
-rw-rw-r-- 1 oracle dba 287270 Oct 21 2004 libmod.a
-rw-rw-r-- 1 oracle dba 161327 Oct 21 2004 libots2c.a
-rw-rw-r-- 1 oracle dba 355959 Oct 21 2004 libpcc.a
-rw-rw-r-- 1 oracle dba 122289 Oct 21 2004 libpco.a
-rw-rw-r-- 1 oracle dba 100476 Oct 21 2004 libpfo.a
-rw-rw-r-- 1 oracle dba 141889 Oct 21 2004 libpgp.a
-rw-rw-r-- 1 oracle dba 779930 Oct 21 2004 libproc2.a
-rw-rw-r-- 1 oracle dba 599098 Oct 21 2004 libprocob2.a
-rw-rw-r-- 1 oracle dba 44211 Oct 21 2004 libpsd.a
-rw-rw-r-- 1 oracle dba 11617 Oct 21 2004 pda.o
-rw-rw-r-- 1 oracle dba 31185 Oct 21 2004 pdb.o
-rw-rw-r-- 1 oracle dba 29862 Oct 21 2004 pdc.o
-rw-rw-r-- 1 oracle dba 21180 Oct 21 2004 pdf.o
-rw-rw-r-- 1 oracle dba 4721 Oct 21 2004 pds.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 4619 Apr 26 2002 pm.o
-rw-rw-r-- 1 oracle dba 19087 Oct 21 2004 pmsapr.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 956 Apr 26 2002 spc0drv.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 956 Apr 26 2002 spc1drv.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 956 Apr 26 2002 spcbd.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 956 Apr 26 2002 spmmain.o

Am I incorrect in assuming that these are the 32-bit precompiler libraries? If they are not the 32-bit precompiler libraries, what are they?

Thanks for any answers anyone can offer, as I said I'm just trying to increase my knowledge of what's going on in case I encounter the same elsewhere!

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