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From: gusw@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Gunther Schadow)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Oracle/Sybase on FreeBSD?
Date: 22 Mar 1997 14:26:04 GMT
Organization: Freie Universitaet Berlin
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Friends!
it is great! Thank you all who have been involved in the work that
lead to 2.2-RELEASE. Linux ELF compatibility is working like awesome!
And IBCS2 has improved so much! I installed the SOLID SQL server for
Linux without any problems, and it works! Today I gave up on the
Oracle 7 Workgroup server for SCO :-(. Please note, that it was due
to the braindead installation overhead of Oracle that I did not
succeed. Too many shell scripts, too many assumptions about file
system layout are made that the installation procedure fails. I did
not have enough experience with working Oracle to do a manual
installation. However, the binaries worked. No coredumps, no problems.
I think that someone who has the 20$ SCO system installed can install
Oracle and then take this installation and run it under FreeBSD-2.2.
It is definitely worth to try!
However, I will not spend time on it for the next time, because a
running Oracle server and client apps will not be what I need. I need
a development environment. And I can not link against COFF libraries
and SCO's AR format. Does anyone know whether it is possible to
convert binary formats COFF --> a.out and ELF --> a.out? This would
be the absolute asset, if we could import libraries to build native
FreeBSD apps with commercial software for Linux, SCO, and maybe
someday Solaris/X86!
thanks for what we have.
-Gunther
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Gunther Schadow------------------Windsteiner Weg 54a, Berlin 14165, FR. Germany
Dept. of Anaesthesia, Benjamin Franklin University Hospital, Berlin.
gusw@fub46.zedat.fu-berlin.de | http://userpage.fu-berlin/~gusw
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