Can't Install Oracle 9i for Linux on RedHat 7.1

Question

I can't get either libclntsh.a or libclntsh.so. genclntsh fails with following error message:
/home2/ora/OraHome/lib/libgeneric9.a(skgfr.o): In function `skgfrpini':
skgfr.o(.text+0x125): undefined reference to `__cmpdi2'
/lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `_dl_lazy@GLIBC_2.1.1'
/lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `_dl_dst_substitute@GLIBC_2.1.1'
/lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `_dl_out_of_memory@GLIBC_2.2'
/lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `_dl_relocate_object@GLIBC_2.0'
/lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `_dl_clktck@GLIBC_2.2'
/lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `__libc_enable_secure@GLIBC_2.0'
/lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `_dl_catch_error@GLIBC_2.0'
/lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `_dl_platformlen@GLIBC_2.1.1'
/lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `_dl_lookup_versioned_symbol_skip@GLIBC_2.0'
/lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `_dl_lookup_versioned_symbol@GLIBC_2.0'
/lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `_dl_mcount@GLIBC_2.1'
/lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `_dl_dst_count@GLIBC_2.1.1'
/lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `_dl_initial_searchlist@GLIBC_2.1'
/lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `_dl_start_profile@GLIBC_2.1'
/lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `_dl_lookup_symbol@GLIBC_2.0'
/lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `__libc_stack_end@GLIBC_2.1'
/lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `_dl_argv@GLIBC_2.2'
/lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `_dl_loaded@GLIBC_2.1'
/lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `_dl_origin_path@GLIBC_2.1.1'
/lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `_dl_check_map_versions@GLIBC_2.2'
/lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `_dl_map_object@GLIBC_2.0'
/lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `_dl_main_searchlist@GLIBC_2.1'
/lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `_dl_debug_mask@GLIBC_2.2.3'
/lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `_dl_load_lock@GLIBC_2.2'
/lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `_dl_profile@GLIBC_2.1'
/lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `_dl_debug_state@GLIBC_2.0'
/lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `_dl_init_all_dirs@GLIBC_2.2'
/lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `_r_debug@GLIBC_2.0'
/lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `_dl_unload_cache@GLIBC_2.1'
/lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `_dl_signal_error@GLIBC_2.0'
/lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `_dl_debug_printf@GLIBC_2.2.3'
/lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `_dl_init@GLIBC_2.2'
/lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `_dl_all_dirs@GLIBC_2.2'
/lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `_dl_map_object_deps@GLIBC_2.0'
/lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `_dl_nloaded@GLIBC_2.2'
/lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `_dl_profile_map@GLIBC_2.1'
/lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `_dl_profile_output@GLIBC_2.1'
/lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `_dl_pagesize@GLIBC_2.2'
/lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `_dl_lookup_symbol_skip@GLIBC_2.0'
/lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `_dl_fpu_control@GLIBC_2.1'
/usr/lib/libdl.so: undefined reference to `_dl_catch_error'
/lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `_dl_global_scope_alloc@GLIBC_2.1'
What is the problem?

Answer 1

Did you carefully go through all pre-req steps for install?
Oracle needs some "compatibility libraries" as well (compat-lib*). Here are packages for AS 10g, most or all of which apply to Database too.
Checking operating system packages: gcc-3.2.3-20,compat-gcc-7.3-2.96.122,compat-gcc-c++-7.3-2.96.122,compat-libstdc++-7.3-2.96.122,compat-libstdc++-devel-7.3-2.96.122,setarch-1.3-1,pdksh-5.2.14,sysstat-4.0.7,gnome-libs-1.4.1.2.90-34.1,libstdc++-3.2.3,compat-libstdc++-devel-7.3-2.96.122,compat-glibc-7.x-2.2.4.32.5
When required packages are in place, there's another error lurking, related to __libc_wait symbol.
runInstaller "boots" OUI, which includes running a JRE from tmp. This JRE (build 02) is broken, but you can setup to run another one via oraparam.ini and JRE_LOCATION. Download build 10 from Sun (google "jre 1.3.1 download").