[Mapserver-users] 3.7 needing Oracle lib?

[Vinko Vrsalovic]

On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 10:48:09AM +0100, Oliver Wesp wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This is not a real problem to me, I was just wondering. I recently compiled 
> 3.7 (nightly.tar 02/23/2003) with
> 
> ./configure --with-gdal=/path/to/gdal-config
> 
> mapserver -v and ./mapserver from the shell worked fine. But as soon as I 
> tried to use it via cgi an internal server error occurred. The apache log 
> told me there was libclntsh.so.8.o missing. This is a library from Oracle. 
> I added $ORACLE_HOME/lib to my LD_LIBRARY_PATH and everything went fine.
> But why is mapserver requesting this, although it's not compiled with 
> oracle spatial support? And what if there is NO oracle on the server 
> machine? Can anybody shed any light on this?

I compiled 3.7 with no Oracle present on my machine, and it works fine,
so I guess maybe configure detects Oracle is present?

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