Install the ORACLE client libraries from RPMs in the standard TRD repository:
http://alice.physi.uni-heidelberg.de/software/yum/RPMS
namely oracle-instantclient and oracle-instantclient-devel.

To compile run:
./bootstrap
./configure
make

To create the database, use the recreate script in ./sql/
you have to create a .secret file there first containing the
ORACLE user account