Linking with make -f on Oracle8i

[Gulam Mohiuddin_1]

I am trying to Link Oracle8i with the OmniBack II Database Library manually
with the following command for using RMAN.
make -f ins_rdbms.mk ioracle \ "LLIBOBK=/opt/omni/lib/libob2oracle8.sl"

For the HP-UX 11.x 64-bit S/O and Oracle 8.1..5 32-bit integration.

My question is what will happen if this link command (make -f) will fail for
some reason. Will it affect my existing Oracle installation or nothing will be
disturb apart form this linking of OmniBack.

Before I proceed, I just want to make sure that our existing Oracle 8i setup
should work well as we have other production databases. So other datatabase
operation should not be disturbed.

[Andreas Voss_2]

Hello,

i've just done an Oracle8-Integration (8.0.6) with OmniBack II 3.10.
So I see that the only thing what make -f ... do is to rebuild the file
$ORACLE_HOME/bin/oracle.
Befor the new file is generated, the current file is renamed to
$ORACLE_HOME/bin/oracleO !
So if you start the make -f ... the current runtime of Oracle did'd change.
After dbshut/dbstart the new file is used.
You shoud look at the new $ORACLE_HOME/bin/oracle for file permissions and
owner/group settings (compare it with oracleO) !
I've got this information by looking into the file ins_rdbms.mk in
$ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/lib at the location ioracle: (line 163).

Hope this helps you.

Best regards

Andreas Voss