Exim + Oracle on FreeBSD - a complication

Hello All,

Please bear with me as I am not quite sure which is the correct list to
post this to. I am divided on whether freebsd-database or freebsd-isp
would be the most appropriate. I have CCed this to exim-users list.
Thank you.


I have installed Oracle 9i on FreeBSD (5.1-REL) successfully. The aim
was to kill two birds with the same stone, but unfortunately it looks
like I didn't aim well enough to get the two birds:

Bird 1: Compile Exim MTA with Oracle Support
Bird 2: Learn a few things about Oracle.

Now I got to a point where I am compiling Exim with support for Oracle (
besides MySQL and Perl) and this is where problems have sprung up.
When I build Exim, I get this warning:


/usr/bin/ld: warning: libc.so.6, needed by
/shared/oracle9/u01/app/oracle/product/9.2.0.1.0/lib/libclntsh.so, may
conflict with libc.so.5

Now from what I can see, libc.so.6 comes from the linux-devtools while
libc.so.5 is native to FreeBSD.
I compiled, but there really seems to be a problem which I "think" is a
result of the warning above: I get so much garbage outputted when I run
even a simple test like `exim -bV`. In trying to isolate the problem,
I did separate build while switching on options one by one. I discovered
the following  

(a) Exim+MySQL+Perl	= OK.
(b) Exim+Oracle+Perl 	= NOT OK.
(c) Exim+Oracle+MySQL	= NOT OK.

Not okay means I see the outputted garbage! I'm not an expert but I am
naively attributing this to the libc conflicts;)


My questions:

1. Is there any way to do this cleanly to avoid anything that
   may be consequent upon the warning about libc conflicts?
2. Has anyone succeeded with a similar setup.


Thank you for any pointers.


-Wash

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發信人: [e-mail] (Oliver Brandmueller), 看板: FB_stable
標  題: Re: Exim + Oracle on FreeBSD - a complication
發信站: NCTU CSIE FreeBSD Server (Fri Nov  7 18:09:41 2003)
轉信站: ptt!FreeBSD.csie.NCTU!not-for-mail

Hi.

On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 12:57:29PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> /usr/bin/ld: warning: libc.so.6, needed by
> /shared/oracle9/u01/app/oracle/product/9.2.0.1.0/lib/libclntsh.so, may
> conflict with libc.so.5
> 
> Now from what I can see, libc.so.6 comes from the linux-devtools while
> libc.so.5 is native to FreeBSD.
> I compiled, but there really seems to be a problem which I "think" is a
> result of the warning above: I get so much garbage outputted when I run
> even a simple test like `exim -bV`. In trying to isolate the problem,
> I did separate build while switching on options one by one. I discovered
> the following  
> 
> (a) Exim+MySQL+Perl	= OK.
> (b) Exim+Oracle+Perl 	= NOT OK.
> (c) Exim+Oracle+MySQL	= NOT OK.
> 
> Not okay means I see the outputted garbage! I'm not an expert but I am
> naively attributing this to the libc conflicts;)

Just a guess:

You can't link a linux lib to a native FreeBSD program. So, if you
wanted to link the oracle libs in, did you remember to compile exim with 
linux devtools as a linux binary then? Otherwise it won't work.

- Oliver

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