missing oracle libraries (.sl)

[KeithVZB]

I have an HP-UX 11i ver 2 server with Oracle 10.2.0.4 for Itanium installed. The $ORACLE_HOME/lib directory on contains .so libraries. My app is looking for .sl libraries. Is this because I have Oracle for Itanium instead of Oracle for PA-RISC?

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

Oracle does have different releases for Itanium versus PA-RISC at that version of the database.

You need to have the correct Oracle install set for your CPU architecture prior to installation.

SEP

[Earl_Crowder · Accepted solution]

What is the output of 'file /path/to/app'? That will determine whether it's an IA app or PA-RISC app. 'chatr /path/to/app' will show what libraries it needs to load, and 'ldd /path/to/app' will determine whether it can load all of them (and their dependent libraries).

FWIW, .sl is the convention for shared libraries on PA-RISC, and .so for IA.

You will probably need to install the PA-RISC oracle client if the app is a PA-RISC app.

[KeithVZB]

Thanks Stephen.

The server is itanium and the oracle install is for itanium. Is it because of the CPU architecture that all the oracle libraries are .so files?

[KeithVZB]

Thanks Earl.

The app is a PA-RISC app.
=> file multiserver
multiserver: ELF-64 executable object file - PA-RISC 2.0 (LP64)

I had my suspicion that I would need the DBA to install the Oracle for PA-RISC. Hopefully she won't give me too much grief. Do you know of any issues with running Oracle for PA-RISC on an Itanium server? I know PA-RISC are supposed to work on Itanium servers.

[Earl_Crowder]

I'm not aware of any issues. I would check Oracle's metalink and see if any searches for Aries turned up (PA-RISC binaries on IA are translated by the ARIES subsystem into native IA code at runtime).

[KeithVZB]

Thanks Earl. You have been a big help.