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

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Thanks Anthony and Harri,

yes I had found out about -mlp64. I am building my own python
(with just readline and zlib as additional libraries) and setup.py
correctly picks the same CFLAGS for compiling cx_oracle.
Provided I edit libPath to point to either lib32 or lib under 
ORACLE_HOME, the linker can produce a .sl module that looks
consistent to me (see file and ldd output below); yet python
flat-out refuses to load said module. No other message than:

$ python
Python 2.3.5 (#14, May 24 2005, 08:04:34)
[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

 >>>>>>


$ file /usr/local/bin/python
/usr/local/bin/python:  ELF-32 executable object file - IA64
$ file /usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/cx_Oracle.sl
/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/cx_Oracle.sl:
ELF-32 shared object file - IA64
$ ldd /usr/local/bin/python
         libc.so.1 =>    /usr/lib/hpux32/libc.so.1
         libpthread.so.1 =>      /usr/lib/hpux32/libpthread.so.1
         libcl.so.1 =>   /usr/lib/hpux32/libcl.so.1
         libnsl.so.1 =>  /usr/lib/hpux32/libnsl.so.1
         librt.so.1 =>   /usr/lib/hpux32/librt.so.1
         libdl.so.1 =>   /usr/lib/hpux32/libdl.so.1
         libm.so.1 =>    /usr/lib/hpux32/libm.so.1
         libdl.so.1 =>   /usr/lib/hpux32/libdl.so.1
         libIO77.so.1 => /usr/lib/hpux32/libIO77.so.1
         libunwind.so.1 =>       /usr/lib/hpux32/libunwind.so.1
         libxti.so.1 =>  /usr/lib/hpux32/libxti.so.1
         libdl.so.1 =>   /usr/lib/hpux32/libdl.so.1
         libuca.so.1 =>  /usr/lib/hpux32/libuca.so.1
$ ldd /usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/cx_Oracle.sl
         libclntsh.so.10.1 
=>/app/oracle/product/10.1.0.2/lib32/libclntsh.so.10.1
         libnnz10.so =>  /app/oracle/product/10.1.0.2/lib32/libnnz10.so
         librt.so.1 =>   /usr/lib/hpux32/librt.so.1
         libnss_dns.so.1 =>      /usr/lib/hpux32/libnss_dns.so.1
         libdl.so.1 =>   /usr/lib/hpux32/libdl.so.1
         libm.so.1 =>    /usr/lib/hpux32/libm.so.1
         libpthread.so.1 =>      /usr/lib/hpux32/libpthread.so.1
         libunwind.so.1 =>       /usr/lib/hpux32/libunwind.so.1
         libdl.so.1 =>   /usr/lib/hpux32/libdl.so.1
         libdl.so.1 =>   /usr/lib/hpux32/libdl.so.1
         libuca.so.1 =>  /usr/lib/hpux32/libuca.so.1

Harri, have you successfully built on HP-UX 11.23 using gcc
in 64-bit mode? Could you perhaps send me your Makefile in order
to try and spot differences? (bdelmee@advalvas._REMOVEME_.be)
I may also ask the admins if they have another box with an HP
compiler. Maybe I am missing something or this is plain broken
on this platform as I am seeing essentially the same problem
with DCOracle2...

Cheers,

Bernard.