Bug 171956

Summary:	Unable to link Oracle 10G R2
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Iustin Pop <iustin.pop>
Component:	binutils	Assignee:	Jakub Jelinek <jakub>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	4.0	CC:	persteinar.iversen
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Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	2.15.92.0.2-18	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Iustin Pop 2005-10-28 07:25:14 UTC

Description of problem:
Cannot link Oracle 10G R2 on x86_64. It seems to be a problem with the linker.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
binutils-2.15.92.0.2-15

How reproducible:
Install Oracle 10G R2. At link time, it fails with:
INFO: /usr/bin/gcc -o libsrvm10.so -u
Java_oracle_ops_mgmt_nativesystem_Native_getEnvironment -u
Java_oracle_ops_mgmt_nativesystem_Native_getRDBMSVersion -u
Java_oracle_ops_mgmt_nativesystem_UnixNative_startDaemon -u
Java_oracle_ops_mgmt_nativesystem_UnixNative_validateRawDevice -u
Java_oracle_ops_mgmt_nativesystem_UnixNative_getOracleGroup -u
Java_oracle_ops_mgmt_nativesystem_UnixNative_getEffectiveGroup -h
libsrvm10.so -shared /orasapp/product/10.2.0.1/srvm/lib/libsrvm10.a
-L/orasapp/product/10.2.0.1/lib/ -L/or
INFO: asapp/product/10.2.0.1/lib/ -L/orasapp/product/10.2.0.1/srvm/lib/
/orasapp/product/10.2.0.1/rdbms/lib/config.o -ldl -lm -lpthread -lnsl
-lirc -Wl,-rpath,/orasapp/product/10.2.0.1/lib -lm -ldl -lm -lpthread
-lnsl -lirc -lm -lm -L/orasapp/product/10.2.0.1/lib

INFO: gcc: unrecognized option `-h'

INFO: /
INFO: usr/bin/ld:
/orasapp/product/10.2.0.1/lib//libirc.a(fast_memcpy.o): relocation
R_X86_64_PC32 against `_memcpy_mem_ops_method' can not be used when
making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Bad value
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Here, the -h unrecognized option is harmless. Even without it, it fails. From
what I've searched on the net, it seems that it is a bug in binutils, which has
been fixed in 2.15.94. I found the bug
http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=679 which shows a similar
behaviour.

Could we please have a confirmation that this is the problem, and if so, a
patched binutils?

Thanks,
Iustin Pop

Comment 2 Per Steinar Iversen 2006-01-20 14:47:59 UTC

I encountered this problems today on AS4 U2. The solution was to add the patch
from http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2005-01/msg00232.html to the binutils
src-rpm and rebuild. Oracle then installed without problems and seems to be working.

Comment 3 Iustin Pop 2006-01-20 15:08:04 UTC

FYI, Oracle provides an pached (and slightly older) version of binutils, which
works as expected.