From owner-freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 31 05:20:53 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-database@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9605C16A4CE for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 05:20:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from beaver.trit.org (beaver.trit.org [69.107.245.241]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A0F743D1F for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 05:20:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dd@freebsd.org) Received: by beaver.trit.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3A2D590D743; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 05:20:53 +0000 (UTC) Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 05:20:53 +0000 From: Dima Dorfman To: Jon Adams Message-ID: <20041031052052.GA22539@trit.org> References: <4183FB7B.2090506@computer.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4183FB7B.2090506@computer.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-PGP-Key: 69FAE582 (http://www.trit.org/~dima/dima.asc) X-PGP-Fingerprint: B340 8338 7DA3 4D61 7632 098E 0730 055B 69FA E582 cc: freebsd-database@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Oracle 8i (8.1.7), FreeBSD 5.1 i386 installation questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-database@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Database use and development under FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 05:20:53 -0000 Jon Adams wrote: > bash-2.04$ ./setup_stubs.sh > Setting up patch files...done. > Patching makefiles as necessary: ... > Rebuilding client shared library...ld: cannot find -ldl > > > Now I know -ldl is for the dlopen function in Linux, which are in a > different place than in FreeBSD, You should be compiling and running everything Oracle-related under Linux emulation, and if you installed the linux_devtools port, you should have libdl in /compat/linux/lib. I suspect that either you aren't running under Linux emulation or that you don't have that port installed. > BTW: please do not tell me to try Oracle 9i, or that I should use > another version of FreeBSD, or something like that, I am locked in this > hardware and OS, so I need to get it to work with the current setup as > much as possible. If you're stuck then you're stuck, but I really would recommend trying to at least get away from 5.1, which really wasn't a production- quality release.