Oracle Apps DBA stuff: Relink fails for Oracle 9.2 patchset with undefined reference to dl_iterate_phdr@GLIBC

Relink fails for Oracle 9.2 patchset with undefined reference to dl_iterate_phdr@GLIBC_2.2.4 [ID 335515.1]

		Modified 21-JUL-2011 Type PROBLEM Status PUBLISHED

In this Document
  Symptoms
  Cause
  Solution
  References

Applies to:

Oracle Server - Enterprise Edition - Version: 9.2.0.4 to 9.2.0.8 - Release: 9.2 to 9.2
Linux x86
Red Hat Advanced Server
Checked for relevance on 05-Feb-2010

Symptoms

While installing the 9.2.0.x.0 patchset on the linux x86 RedHat Server following error were encountered during the relink phase.
$ORACLE_HOME/install/make.log
------------------------------------------

/usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/3.4.3/libgcc_s.so: undefined reference to `dl_iterate_phdr@GLIBC_2.2.4'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [trcroute] Error 1

On checking:

Note.303859.1 Requirements for Installing Oracle 9iR2 on RHEL 4

We find all the required packages has been already installed.

# rpm -qa compat-oracle-rhel4

compat-oracle-rhel4-1.0-5

Cause

The System Administrator has installed the latest O/S updates from the RedHat. This has caused the Oracle patch "compat-oracle-rhel4-1.0-5" to be overwritten.

# ls -l /usr/bin/gcc*

-rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 93120 May 17 01:36 /usr/bin/gcc
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 86364 Dec 1 2004 /usr/bin/gcc32
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 94784 May 17 01:36 /usr/bin/gcc.orig
# rpm -qs compat-oracle-rhel4

normal /usr/bin/g++.tmp_1
normal /usr/bin/gcc.tmp_1

Solution

Reinstall "compat-oracle-rhel4-1.0-5"

Redownload the patch:4198954 from Oracle Metalink.
Follow the instruction from the README to reapply the patch.

This time when you reapply the patch you will receive the following error.

# rpm -Uvh compat-oracle-rhel4-1.0-5.i386.rpm

Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
package compat-oracle-rhel4-1.0-5 is already installed

Use the following command to reapply the patch.

# rpm -Uvh --force compat-oracle-rhel4-1.0-5.i386.rpm

Preparing...               ########################################### [100%]
   1:compat-oracle-rhel4    ########################################### [100%]
# ls -l /usr/bin/gcc*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   914 Feb 23 2005 /usr/bin/gcc
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 84780 Dec 1 2004 /usr/bin/gcc32
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 93120 Sep 26 10:28 /usr/bin/gcc.orig