About this task
Example environment:
- Instant Client - Basic at /usr/local/instantclient_11_2, to use American English
- Oracle 11.2 on a UNIX system at /usr/local/oracle/product/11.2.0/db_1, installed to support international data
Variable settings on the system where the client and Build Forge are installed:
- LD_LIBRARY_PATH (Solaris, Linux) or LIBPATH (AIX) includes /usr/local/instantclient_11_2
- NLS_LANG=AMERICAN_AMERICA.AL32UTF8
- ORACLE_HOME=/usr/local/instantclient_11_2
- ORA_NLS10=/usr/local/oracle/ocommon/nls/admin/data
- PATH includes /usr/local/instantclient_11_2
- TNS_ADMIN=/usr/local/oracle/product/11.2/db_1/network/admin
UNIX and Linux Systems using Oracle Instant Client 11.2The Build Forge application has a dependency on library
libclntsh.so.10.1, which is part of the version 10.2 client. During installation, the installer checks for this file in ORACLE_HOME. If the file does not exist, the installer assumes that you are using the version 11.2 client and attempts to create a symbolic link from
libclntsh.so.10.1 to the corresponding version 11.2 library,
libclntsh.so.11.1.
ln -s libclntsh.so.11.1 libclntsh.so.10.1
Important: The user running the Build Forge installer must have write access to the ORACLE_HOME directory. If this is an issue at your site, have an authorized user create the link manually before you install Build Forge. At some sites the client may be installed on a file system that is mounted read-only (common practice with Solaris systems).