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While installing one-off Patch on AIX systems, getting several WARNING messages: OUI-67215 - TOC overflow and/or xlC: not found / xlC: Execute permission denied (Doc ID 402945.1)

Last updated on SEPTEMBER 01, 2023

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 8.1.7.4 and later
Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
Gen 1 Exadata Cloud at Customer (Oracle Exadata Database Cloud Machine) - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Express Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later
IBM AIX on POWER Systems (64-bit)

Symptoms

You are trying to install an Interim/One-off Patch on AIX platform.
You are encountering WARNINGs in the relinking stage of the Patch Apply.

Example: when applying CPUOct2006 to Oracle DB 10.2.0.2 on AIX
Running make for target ioracle
ApplySession adding interim patch '5490848' to inventory

Verifying the update...
Inventory check OK: Patch ID 5490848 is registered in Oracle Home inventory with proper meta-data.
Files check OK: Files from Patch ID 5490848 are present in Oracle Home.

The local system has been patched and can be restarted.
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The following warnings have occurred during OPatch execution:
1) OUI-67215:
OPatch found the word "failed" in the stderr of the make command.
Please look at this stderr. You can re-run this make command.
Stderr output:

ld: 0711-783 WARNING: TOC overflow. TOC size: 67040 Maximum size: 65536
Extra instructions are being generated for each reference to a TOC
symbol if the symbol is in the TOC overflow area.
ld: 0711-783 WARNING: TOC overflow. TOC size: 67040 Maximum size: 65536
Extra instructions are being generated for each reference to a TOC
symbol if the symbol is in the TOC overflow area.
/local/test/oracle/product/10.2/bin/genoccish[82]: xlC: 0403-006 Execute permission denied.
ar: A file or directory in the path name does not exist.
ar: 0707-117 The fopen system call failed on file /local/test/oracle/product/10.2/lib/shr.o.
/local/test/oracle/product/10.2/bin/genoccish[82]: xlC: 0403-006 Execute permission denied.
ar: A file or directory in the path name does not exist.
ar: 0707-117 The fopen system call failed on file /local/test/oracle/product/10.2/lib32/shr.o.

While relinking the Database 11.2.0.2 $ORACLE_HOME/bin/oracle binary on AIX (for example, when applying a patch) the linker may report a large number (5000+) of warning messages like the ones below:

OPatch found the word "error" in the stderr of the make command.
Please look at this stderr. You can re-run this make command.
Stderr output:
...
ld: 0711-415 WARNING: Symbol ... is already exported.
ld: 0711-319 WARNING: Exported symbol not defined: ...
ld: 0711-773 WARNING: Object ... imported symbol timezone symbol was expected to be local.

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