I'm posting this message here, so that someone googling here will be able to find it.
I was having problems installing cx_Oracle on Solaris. The build would fail with a message: > ld: fatal: file /apps/oracle/prod/9.2/lib/libclntsh.so: wrong ELF class: > ELFCLASS64 I found the solution on Grig Gheorghiu's blog. Grig had similar problems when installing on UNIX, specifically AIX. You can find his very useful report on how he solved the problem, here: http://agiletesting.blogspot.com/2005/05/installing-and-using-cxoracle-on-unix.html and also here: http://agiletesting.blogspot.com/2005/07/installing-python-241-and-cxoracle-on.html To put matters in a nutshell, Oracle 9i installs the 64-bit libraries in $ORACLE_HOME/lib and the 32-bit libraries in $ORACLE_HOME/lib32. Since setup.py is looking by default in $ORACLE_HOME/lib, it finds the 64-bit libraries and it fails. The trick (at least for me) was to change "lib" to "lib32" in my ORACLE_HOME environment setting, and in setup.py. MUCH thanks to Grig for his useful blog! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
