Opened 13 years ago

Closed 12 years ago

#31521 closed defect (fixed)

oracle-instantclient: segmentation fault on Lion x86_64

Reported by: mattg@… Owned by: ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)
Priority: Normal Milestone:
Component: ports Version: 2.0.3
Keywords: lion mountainlion Cc:
Port: oracle-instantclient

Description

When installing oracle-instantclient on Lion, it completes installation sucessfully once the instant client libraries are downloaded to: /opt/local/var/macports/distfiles/oracle-instantclient/

HOWEVER, once trying to run anything against oracle it gives a segmentation fault: 11.

From what I have seen from the oracle site, this is due to the fact that the 64-bit instant client is not supported on Lion yet. Not sure if the solution is to force it to use the 32-bit client only, or to simply wait for Oracle to fix the issue.

Change History (10)

comment:1 Changed 13 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)

Keywords: lion added
Owner: changed from macports-tickets@… to ryandesign@…
Port: oracle-instantclient added
Summary: Oracle instant client fails on OSX Lion - oracle-instantclientoracle-instantclient: segmentation fault

Remember to fill in the Port field and to Cc the maintainer of that port.

Feel free to install oracle-instantclient with the +universal variant and just use the i386 part of it. If Oracle releases a new version, of course I'll update the port if possible.

comment:2 Changed 12 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)

Has duplicate #34092.

comment:3 Changed 12 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)

Summary: oracle-instantclient: segmentation faultoracle-instantclient: segmentation fault on Lion x86_64

Has duplicate #33617.

comment:4 Changed 12 years ago by neverpanic (Clemens Lang)

Shouldn't this be marked supported_archs i386 if it doesn't work when compiled for x86_64?

comment:5 Changed 12 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)

Cc: cal@… added

Yes... I suppose I have to. I was hoping Oracle would release a new 64-bit Lion-compatible version, but they have not.

The problem is that if I mark oracle-instantclient as 32-bit only on Lion and up, I have to do the same for everything that depends on oracle-instantclient (ocilib, php-oracle, qore-oracle-module, TOra) and everything that depends on those (fortunately none).

But then what will happen is a user will install php54-oracle. It will rebuild php54 and its dependencies universal. The user will run "php54 foo.php" and be surprised when oracle support is not available; the user will have to run "arch -i386 php54 foo.php" to get the 32-bit version of PHP. Or if the user wants to use this in a web server, the user will have to manually reinstall their web server SAPI (php54-apache2handler, php54-cgi, php54-fpm) with the universal variant, and then arrange to have it start in 32-bit mode. For php54-apache2handler, that means editing an "arch -i386" command into the apache2 start script—a change which will be lost anytime apache2 is upgraded, rebuilt or even just deactivated. It's basically a mess.

Users who actually use oracle-instantclient should please communicate to Oracle their need for a 64-bit compatible version of their software that works on Lion. And Mountain Lion. And while they're at it, fix the misconfiguration of their builds that requires users to set DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH.

comment:6 Changed 12 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)

Has duplicate #31522.

comment:7 Changed 12 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)

I've filed tickets for all ports using oracle-instantclient with patches to make them build 32-bit on Lion and up:

And I'll do the PHP ports myself. Once that's done, we can make oracle-instantclient itself 32-bit only on Lion and up.

comment:8 in reply to:  7 Changed 12 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)

Replying to ryandesign@…:

And I'll do the PHP ports myself.

comment:9 Changed 12 years ago by neverpanic (Clemens Lang)

Cc: cal@… removed

comment:10 Changed 12 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)

Keywords: mountainlion added
Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

oracle-instantclient 11 should be 64-bit compatible even on Lion and up, so the update in #37880 will be reverting all these changes.

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