How to resolve "Can't find library or mismatched ABI for –lclntsh"

[xinm]

Hello friends:
When I compiled a pro*c program,It happens errors:
.......
ld: Can't find library or mismatched ABI for –lclntsh
.......

My makefile includes "-L$(ORACLE_HOME)/lib -lclntsh".
Then,I checked the file "libclntsh.so" is in the $ORACLE_HOME/lib/ path ,and "LD_LIBRARY_PATH" includes the “$ORACLE_HOME/lib”path.

MY Program s Environment:
machine : ia64 hp server rx4640
OS info:
sysname = HP-UX
release = B.11.23
gcc version 4.0.4

And now I don't know how to resolve this problem.I hope somebody can help me.
Thanks!

[Steven Schweda]

file $ORACLE_HOME/lib/libclntsh.so

It might help to see the whole link command
from the "make" file.

[Dennis Handly]

You're on IPF and so you need to specify a path like lib/hpux32 or lib/hpux64.

>Steven: file $ORACLE_HOME/lib/libclntsh.so

You may need to insert hpux32 before the lib?

[xinm]

>to Steven Schweda,my makefile linked command:
MAKEEXE= g++ -v â Wall -L$(ORACLE_HOME)/rdbms/lib -L$(ORACLE_HOME)/lib -lclntsh
Analyse: $(PUB_OBJS) $(CONFIG_PARA_OBJS) $(APP_OBJS)
$(MAKEEXE) â o Analyse $(PUB_OBJS) $(CONFIG_PARA_OBJS) $(APP_OBJS)

>to Dennis Handly
Before I ask for helping ,I tried to add â lib/hpux32 â in the â LD_LIBRARY_PATHâ ,and file â libclntsh.soâ is in this path,the error still happenes.

[Dennis Handly]

>Before I asked for help, I tried to add "lib/hpux32" in the "LD_LIBRARY_PATH" and file "libclntsh.so" is in this path, the error still happens.

The linker doesn't look at LD_LIBRARY_PATH. It looks at -L or LPATH.

[Steven Schweda]

> file $ORACLE_HOME/lib/libclntsh.so

That was intended as a suggestion to run that
command. (And post the output.)

[xinm]

Thanks all!
When I copied the "libclntsh.so" from the path "$ORACLE_HOME/lib" to the path "/lib/hpux32",then define "-L/lib/hpux32" in my makefile,then everything is ok.
But I tried to delete "libclntsh.so" from "/lib/hpux32",then define "-L$ORACLE_HOME/lib" in my makefile,error still happened!
Can somebody tell me why this happen?
Thanks,my friends!

[Dennis Handly]

>When I copied the libclntsh.so from the path $ORACLE_HOME/lib to the path /lib/hpux32, then define -L/lib/hpux32 in my makefile,then everything is ok.

So, stick with what works.

>But I tried to delete libclntsh.so from /lib/hpux32, then define -L$ORACLE_HOME/lib in my makefile, error still happened!
>Can somebody tell me why this happen?

I would have to see what your linker options are. There may be other dependent shlibs that want that old path.