OCI8 make error, undefined symbols

npfallen

Having a problem compiling PHP 4.3.2 (or 4.3.0) with Oracle oci8 on Unix Aix 5.1 with Apache 1.3.27 and Oracle 9.2.

The configure works great:
./configure --with-apache=/usr/local/apache_1.3.27 --enable-track-vars --with-oci8

Early in the make, I am getting the following errors. Our DBA says OCI libraries are installed, but I don't know how to verify this--there is an oci directory (/oracle/v92/oci) but it is empty except for a 'samples' sub-directory.

ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .OCIEnvInit
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .OCIHandleAlloc
..[similar entries removed]..
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .OCITypeByRef
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .OCIObjectNew
ld: 0711-345 Use the -bloadmap or -bnoquiet option to obtain more
information.
collect2: ld returned 8 exit status
make: *** [sapi/cli/php] Error 1

Thanks for any help you can offer, this is driving me mad! Don.

eagle-owl

Hi,

Thanks for any help you can offer, this is driving me mad!

Same here. Situation is AIX 4.3.0.0, oracle 9.2.0, apache 1.3.26 and trying PHP 4.2.3, 4.3.3, .7, .8 and 5.0.0 Same problem with all versions. In the meantime trying apache 2.0 with PHP 5, configure running right now.

I ran into the following hint, which unfortunately didn't work for me 🙁 (any help welcome), but you might want to try it:

Avoid 1.75 days anguish building PHP 4.3.6 on AIX 5.2.0.0 with Oracle 9.2.0.4, the preponderantly relevant part being AIX 5.2:

If you get all the way through the object file builds and then the linker craps out with "symbol not defined" errors for all of the oracle call symbols (etx/oracle or ext/oci8), try to do an

$ ar -t ${ORACLE_HOME}/lib/libcltnsh.a

If this fails silently, do a:

$ export OBJECT_MODE=64

and try the "ar" again. If the "ar" displays a bunch of symbols this time, go back to your php top level directory and do a make distclean, configure [args] and a make. It should build fine this time.

Note: if your apache was built with the env variable OBJECT_MODE unset or set to a value of 32, you will have to rebuild and reinstall apache with the OBJECT_MODE set to 64 before it will work. If you're getting "bad magic number" errors from apache when it tries to load libphp4.so, this is the problem.

Source: http://php3.de/manual/de/install.apache.php (Scroll down to User Contributed Notes)

HTH, good luck!

Philipp