SOLVED(8i): missing symbol nnflboot (with new patch)

Question

8i-EE with new patch (patch date 27 August) has a big problem:
the created libclntsh.so is useless: missing symbol nnflboot,
which doesn't exist anywhere.
(And to the guy who wrote something that sounded like this isn't
serious: not a single program that uses libclntsh, which is THE
library every dynamically linked Oracle-client program uses, will
run!)
Reason: script bin/gennfgt creates the C-sources for nnfgt.o,
which contains that undefined symbol (nnfgt.o is in libn8.a). The
script checks what libs are available and also checks for and
finds libldapclnt8.a. Now it adds a call to nnflboot to the
C-file, because it has found LDAP-support - but the libnldap8.a,
where this funtion is supposed to be defined, is size 0.
Good solution: hey, Oracle, give us a libnldap8.a!
Quick hack: remove the check for LDAP from gennfgt, and do
gennfgt >temp.c
gcc -c -o nnfgt.o temp.c
rm temp.c
ar r nnfgt.o libn8.a
genclntsh
relink all
That was easy, wasn't it ;-) ?
There are many more bugs left....
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Answer 1

Hello Michael,
thanks for the help, Oracle 8i on Suse 6.2 runs fine now. But I
didn3t test it very well, perhaps there still many bugs.
Just one quick hint:
it3s
ar r libn8.a nnfgt.o
not
ar r nnfgt.o libn8.a
I3m looking forward to your patch, so we don3t have to hack all
the 8i, to get it to work.
Keep up with the good work,
Ralph
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