Hi, you are correct, Exlibris's codebase will only compile on RH ES 2.1
(because its based off of RH 7.3). Originally it only compiled on RH
7.x but was moved to ES 2.1 in dec 2003 when RH dropped support of RH
7.x. I have no idea why it only compiles on ES 2.1 though. Originally
Exlibris only ran on Solaris and Windows, and around 1998 was ported to
Linux. We are one of the few Exlibris customers (The only one in the
USA in fact, the rest are in europe) that uses Linux for Aleph. I
believe the smbmount >2GB patches have been backported to kernel 2.4,
I'll ask on the samba list if anyone can link me to them. Also, Oracle
9 is what Exlibris currently ships with, and I believe (but not 100%
positive) that Oracle 9 works with ES 2.1 but not 3.0. Oracle 10 works
with ES 3.0 AFAIK. Thanks for the help.
dsavage@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Adam,
I could be very mistaken here (if so, don't be shy), but I believe Oracle
supports RHEL/ES v3.0 as well as v2.1. In fact, I seem to recall a story
in the tech trades a few weeks back that said Oracle + RHEL/ES v3 have
earned acceptance under the Common Criteria program for U.S. government
purchase and use. If it's Exlibris that doesn't support v3.0, though,
that's a different situation entirely. I could probably come up with a
quick list of a dozen reasons why their code could be v2.1-specific. One
that comes almost instantly to mind might be code that's not thread-safe
in an NPTL environment. I'm beginning to appreciate your problem.
--Doc Savage
Fairview Heights, IL
