RE: xlC requirement for 10gR2 on AIX?

Right.  Did that several times, which is the resaon for my post.  Since
this is a COTS DB, I don't know if I'll need OCCI in the future.

Thanks,
Rich

-----Original Message-----
From: Mercadante, Thomas F (LABOR)
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Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 1:25 PM
To: Jesse, Rich; Oracle-L Freelists
Subject: RE: xlC requirement for 10gR2 on AIX?

Rich,

Look at the README.html file.  It says:


Tom

4.1.2.1 AIX

The following issues are specific to AIX.
      Issue 1: When installing patches on ALL releases you may receive
the following error:

      xlC: not found

      If you are not using OCCI, then the error message can be safely
ignored.

      If you are using OCCI, the then AIX C++ compiler must be installed
and in the PATH. Issue the following to confirm

      % which xlC

If xlC is not found, determine its location and add the directory to the
PATH environment variable. If it is not installed, it will need to be
installed for the successful installation of this patch. Once it is
installed, determine its location and add the directory to the PATH
environment variable. Continue the installation and run the following
once the above has been resolved:

      % genoccish

      The preceding command will return to the command prompt if it is
successful. Otherwise, errors will be thrown.



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From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jesse, Rich
Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 1:59 PM
To: Oracle-L Freelists
Subject: xlC requirement for 10gR2 on AIX?

Hey all,

Getting used to AIX (http://bhami.com/rosetta.html is a huge help!), but
I have one little issue that's got my OCD flaring.  While applying the
July 2006 CPU, I get errors because genoccish looks for the command
"xlC".  With the latest'n'greatest patchset for AIX 5.3 SP4, the xlC
install apparently does not generate a command called "xlC".  Upon
further checking, the version of xlC in that version of AIX is v6.  The
Oracle docs recommend v7, which can indeed be downloaded from ibm.com,
but the SA can't see a reason to and I have to agree with him.  I'm
wondering what else could break after installing v7, seeing as v6 is
included with the OS SPs.

I don't know of anything running on these boxes that will use OCCI, so I
should be able to safely ignore the errors -- for now.  I don't like the
idea of me having to document yet another "ignore these specific errors
specifically for this version" etc.

What I've tried to do is emulate an "xlC" binary by:

$ ln -s /usr/ccs/lib/cpp /usr/local/bin/xlC
$ NLSPATH=$NLSPATH:/usr/lpp/xlC/exe/default_msg/%N; export NLSPATH
$ LANG=en_US; export LANG

This would seem to solve my problems, but I'm now getting errors which
would seem to indicate that v6 of xlC may be much more different from
the recommended v7:

1506-173 (W) Option mkshrobj is not valid. Enter xlc for list of valid
options.
1506-173 (W) Option L/opt/oracle/10.2.0/lib is not valid. Enter xlc for
list of valid options.
1506-173 (W) Option lclntsh is not valid. Enter xlc for list of valid
options.
1506-297 (S) Unable to open input file /opt/oracle/10.2.0/lib/shr.o. No
such file or directory.

Metalink has no articles on these.  I realize that the last error is
highly likely a result of the first three.

What are other AIX shops doing?  Any problems with installing xlC v7?
Or are y'all just hacking genoccish?

TIA,
Rich
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