Curt Russell Crandall wrote: > In case anyone cares..... > > It appears the threaded version of Perl 5.8.0 on OSX is incompatible with > DBI. This really bites since you need the threaded version for Apache > 2.0.43 and mod_perl 1.99_07. So, on OSX, you are probably better off > using FastCGI or, I hate to say, Java Servlets/JSP for dynamic web pages > since not having DBI available pretty much makes mod_perl worthless... at > least for me. > > The distro of Perl I'm using on my OSX box is from serverlogistics.com > (aaronfaby.com... there's a link next to Rendezvous on Safari). Since > Perl 5.8 is binary incompatible with 5.6.x, you have to recompile all of > the XS mods (i.e. Storable)... but with the pkg from serverlogistics, > that's all taken care off. > > I'm unsure if there are similar incompatibilities with threaded Perl5.8 > and DBI on Linux... I'll try it out later today. My main Linux box runs > Perl5.8 non-threaded and DBI-1.31 works fine. > > Hopefully, this incompatiblity with threaded Perl 5.8 and DBI gets > resolved soon... otherwise Java is looking more like the route to go on > OSX... and I really really hate Java. > > Curt
RedHat 8.0 uses threaded perl 5.8.0 as well, and the current DBI installed just fine here..
