With Oracle 8i there's a tool called 'relink' in $ORACLE_HOME/bin - no need
to get your hands filty with 'make' anymore :-)
"Satmika" <sathmika_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:34fd20b.0111211325.6f2eebe0_at_posting.google.com...
> I received an error message while relinking (error in invoking target
> install of makefile ins_rdbms.mk....) when I am applying 8.1.6.2 patch
> on an 8.1.6 DB (with no spatial option). I guess it is trying to
> apply a spatial related patch and could not find all the libraries.
>
> So I tried the following from command line
> make -f ins_rdbms.mk sdo_off ioracle
> and this time it went fine.
>
> My questions are
> 1) what about all the other executables that ins_rdbms.mk has. How
> can I compile all those. To be on the safe side can I issue relink
> all again?
> 2)If I do a relink all will it use the sdo_off option again because I
> already linked once with sdo_off. Does it remember the options that I
> had before?
> 3) Is there anything wrong with issuing the relink all command any
> number of times if I am not sure.
>
> Thanks,
> Satmika
Received on Wed Nov 21 2001 - 16:23:53 CST
