[cx-oracle-users] Re: python 2.3 + cx_oracle on HP-UX Itanium

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I had no (serious ;-) trouble building python 2.3.5
using gcc 3.4.3. Cx_oracle 4.1 compiles alright, but
then I get the following at link stage:

$ ld -b build/temp.hp-ux-B.11.23-ia64-2.3/cx_Oracle.o
	-L/app/oracle/product/10.1.0.2/lib -lclntsh
	-o build/lib.hp-ux-B.11.23-ia64-2.3/cx_Oracle.sl -s

ld: Can't find library or mismatched ABI for -lclntsh
Fatal error.
error: command 'ld' failed with exit status 1


Under $ORACLE_HOME, i am seeing both a lib and a lib32
directory. If I substitute lib32 to lib, the above ld
invocation works; but then python fails to load the
resulting shared lib:

[acars@prisme20] cx_Oracle-4.1 $ python
Python 2.3.5 (#8, May 20 2005, 20:55:11)
[GCC 3.4.3] on hp-ux11
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

 >>>>>> import cx_Oracle

Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
ImportError: Failed to load
/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/cx_Oracle.sl

 >>>>>>

I am puzzled; could it be that gcc by default generates 32-bit
code on Itanium? I wouldn't mind actually, but then why won't
the module built against the 32-bit oracle libraries load?

Any suggestion welcome,

Cheers,

Bernard.