Install of Oracle 8.1.7. on Solaris 8 fails

Question

Hi All!
I am doing an install of Oracle 8.1.7. Right near the end of the install when oracle is trying to link it's libraries, I get a message that /oracle/product/8.1.7./rdbms/lib/ins_rdbms.mk failed. I continue with the install and try to run make on this file by hand. I get:
make: Fatal error: Don't know how to make '/oracle/product/8.1.7./rdbms/lib/libskgxpd.a(/oracle/product/8.1.7./rdbms/lib/skgxpd.o)'
I did a search on Google and the only references to skgxpd.o where for the SuSE Linux Oracle, although the error is identical. Unfortunately, no solution has been offered.
One person I talked to said to make sure LD_LIBRARY_PATH included /oracle/product/8.1.7./rdbms/lib/. However, that didn't help.
I would be grateful for any help.
Regards,
Jim Mohr

Answer 1

One person I talked to said to make sure LD_LIBRARY_PATH included /oracle/product/8.1.7./rdbms/lib/. However, that didn't help. James,
Because the path of /oracle/product/8.1.7./rdbms/lib/ depends on the location of ORACLE_HOME you set, it doesn't sound like a pre-installation setting. It's not mentioned in the manual anyway.
You may want to check to see if the following commands are on the installation user (oracle)'s PATH.
$ /usr/bin/which make
$ /usr/bin/which ar
$ /usr/bin/which ld
$ /usr/bin/which nm
Also it's mentioned in the manual:
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Note: If you require /usr/ucb in your search path, make sure it
comes after /usr/ccs/bin in the PATH setting.
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I set up a 8.1.7 on Solaris 8 but didn't have such a problem.
Best luck,
Han Zhang