Re: [gnome-db] Oracle 9 support

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 23:05, Thomas Ruschival wrote:
> Hi,
> I just wrote an email to Rodrigo, he told me you know better what to do about
> compiling libgda with Oracle 9i. I tried it today, it fails with this error:
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lserver8
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[3]: *** [libgda-oracle.la] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/tmp/libgda-0.9.0/providers/oracle'
> 
> I know it is not supposed to work with Oracle 9i, but I'd like it to be
> therefore I want to help get it running, unfortunately I am nt a C/C++ Guru. 
> On a client istallation there is no server8 or server9 library, I don't know
> what you use it for. I looked at my Server and found a library called
> libserver9.a it don't know if it will do the trick.
> Feel free to ask me for more information.
> 
what we need are 2 things:

* a way to detect the oracle version installed in our configure script
* a list of oracle9 needed libraries, so that, depending on the version
detected, it will use one or the other set.

I'm not sure on either one, so please Oracle experts, speak :-)

cheers