From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 20 7:46:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADFD237B401 for ; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 07:46:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) id g5KEk2xR047867; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 09:46:02 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 09:46:02 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: "F.Xavier Noria" Cc: Pascal Giannakakis , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Oracle 8 clients on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20020620144602.GB7928@dan.emsphone.com> References: <19860.1024566084@www24.gmx.net> <20020620130224.10bdfc43.fxn@retemail.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020620130224.10bdfc43.fxn@retemail.es> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Jun 20), F.Xavier Noria said: > On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 11:41:24 +0200 (MEST) > Pascal Giannakakis wrote: > : does anybody of you use Oracle 8 in a production-env? I'm so sick > : of my SuSE-Linux workstation here at work, i could throw this crap > : out of the window... I want to install FreeBSD, however, i need > : Oracle 8 clients. Will it work without problems, if i follow the > : instructiuons in the handbook? > > As for the clients, I uncompressed a Linux tarball under /home/oracle > and worked fine out of the box, which means here that sqlplus could > connect to a remote database. > > Take into account, however, that FreeBSD native executables cannot > use Linux libraries and there is no OCI library for FreeBSD. So if > you are going to need to write in that machine, say, a Perl program > that has to use the database you'll have a hard time. I installed > Red Hat's perl but couldn't build DBD::Oracle. I needed to switch to > Debian at work because of that. I've always wondered if the Oracle JDBC driver could be used natively under FreeBSD; Oracle claims they are "100% pure Java", so you should be able to set up some sort of C/Perl/Whatever -> ODBC -> JDBC -> Oracle link, with all but the Oracle component being native FreeBSD. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message