[SunRescue] Oracle Linking (Was Re: compiler problems)

[Jonathan Katz]

Nick asked:
:Why?

[ ... in relation to why Oracle gets re-linked on an install ... ]

(I happen to be working at a client site where there are "Oracle 
Consulting" personnel on-site, so I got to tap their expertise-- 
otherwise I'd have no idea about this...)

It relinks on-install because there are different OS-dependancies
for threading, etc, with different versions of the OS. This means
that a single Oracle 8i CD can be used to install Oracle on any
rev of Solaris. Please note that when you run the install /usr/ccs/bin
should be in your path ahead of /usr/local/bin so that the Solaris
ld gets called instead of the GNU ld (if you have that installed) as
linking Oracle against the GNU libs is a "bad thing"(tm) and generally
don't work.

Lots (if not all) of the Oracle apps (svrmgrl, sqlplus, tnslistner,
etc) get re-linked.

-Jon
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