[gdal-dev] Problem Compiling with Oracle (--with-oci)

[Chris Hodgson]

grep tells me that the /ade/smayer.../ path is not in any text file in 
my gdal distribution (even after configuring) - which I grabbed the 
latest 1.8.0 from osgeo.org.

Chris

Ivan Lucena wrote:
> Chris,
>
> I am not on my Linux machine now to confirm but I would never needed to use --with-expat pointing to Oracle's path. It is fanny that you found that smaver path. Sounds like you got a tar.gz package from someone, not from a GDAL distribution.
>
> The OCI driver should not depend in nothing but OCI apart from GDAL/OGR stuff.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ivan
>
>
>   
>>  -------Original Message-------
>>  From: Chris Hodgson <chodgson at refractions.net>
>>  To: gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org
>>  Subject: [gdal-dev] Problem Compiling with Oracle (--with-oci)
>>  Sent: Jun 20 '11 17:43
>>  
>>  I'm trying to compile GDAL/OGR with support for Oracle/OCI. I have the
>>  full oracle 11g server installed on CentOS 5.3.
>>  
>>  # configure --with-oci=/opt/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1/
>>  # make
>>  ...
>>  libtool:.....
>>  g++: /ade/smayer_perl_510/perl_source/expat_home/lib/libexpat.so: No
>>  such file or directory
>>  
>>  I think this path might be from the person who compiled the OCI
>>  libraries for oracle 11? I have nothing remotely like it on my system.
>>  If I add --with-expat=no to my configure line I get errors during
>>  linking about undefined references to XML_... so I'm guessing the linked
>>  OCI drivers need the expat lib linked in.
>>  
>>  I added /opt/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1/lib to my LD_LIBRARY_PATH,
>>  and there is a libexpat.so.1.5.2 there, as well as my
>>  /lib/libexpat.so.0.5.0 which is from my CentOS standarad RPMS:
>>  
>>  # rpm -qa | grep expat
>>  expat-1.95.8-8.2.1
>>  expat-devel-1.95.8-8.2.1
>>  
>>  I also tried --with-expat=/opt/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1/ but there
>>  are no headers there, among other problems.
>>  
>>  How can I get this to work?
>>  
>>  Thanks,
>>  Chris
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