From: KUBO Takehiro <kubo@...>
Date: 2004-03-04T02:05:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby, Solaris and Oracle drivers

Hi,

djberg96@hotmail.com (Daniel Berger) writes:

> Hi all,
>
> Ruby 1.8.1 (64 bit)
> Solaris 9
> Oracle 9.2 (64 bit)
> $ORACLE_HOME = /opt/oracle>file
> Solaris ld
(snip)
>>ruby dbitest.rb
> /opt/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/DBD/Oracle/Oracle.rb:86: [BUG] Bus Error
> ruby 1.8.1 (2003-12-25) [sparc-solaris2.9]
>
> Abort (core dumped)

I don't have 64 bit oracle server and I hadn't tested it on
Solaris. But I suppose that it may be solved by adding
"-DSS_64BIT_SERVER" to the CFLAGS option. That's because the size of
Lda_Def and Cda_Def depends on whether SS_64BIT_SERVER is set or not.

> The ruby-oci8 driver, however, appears to work flawlessly.  I didn't
> have to edit the Makefile and yet it works without having
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH set.  So, what did OCI8 do right that the other two
> did wrong?  That, or what am *I* doing wrong?

Oracle and Ruby9i build linker options by itself. But ruby-oci8 gets
linker options from $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/demo/demo_rdbms.mk.
I suppose it added "-R$ORACLE_HOME/lib".

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