Re: [Exim] Exim + Oracle on FreeBSD - a complication

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Author: Odhiambo G. Washington
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To: Exim Users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Exim + Oracle on FreeBSD - a complication
* Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@???> [20031107 13:05]: wrote:
> On (2003/11/07 12:57), Odhiambo Washington wrote:
>
> > 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.
>


Hi Sheldon,

Thanks for a quick one.. and thanks also for the tutorial about posting to
multiple lists. Never had any good ideas about it.


> Looks like you're trying to link a FreeBSD binary (exim) against a Linux
> library (libclntsh.so). I don't think that's going to work.



This sound almost onthedot ;)


> I think you may have to build a Linux binary of Exim, and then run
> _that_ on FreeBSD.
>
> Crazy-sounding, I know. But it should work. You're likely to pull
> quite a bit of hair out during the process of tweaking the build,
> though.


In other words, you are inversely suggesting that I'll have an easier
life running all this stuff under Linux. Pooh! And the way I have a
phobia for Linux...



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