On Mon 28 Jan 2002 17:27, Michael Peppler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Tim Bunce writes:
> > On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 10:20:38AM +0100, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
> > >
> > > Now what would be a solution for a problem stated either here or on another
> > > group related to new perl builds and the use of DBI/DBD. Sybase (I think) only
> > > ships their new products with 64bit libraries, which have - of course - to be
> > > linked against a 64bit application, like perl built with -Duse64bitall. This
> > > is no problem for DBI, but what if this user wants both Sybase/64 *and* Unify
> > > (unlikely, I know, but there are probably better examples to be thought of) a
> > > database that (so far) only supports 32bit (static) builds and thus requires a
> > > 32bit perl.
> > >
> > > Is this something to put to p5p?
> >
> > Either it'll work or it won't. Probably not a p5p issue, more likely need
> > to ensure that other modules, like DBD::Sybase build okay with a perl built
> > with -Duse64bitall. But I'm just guessing.
>
> A couple of things:
>
> First, although Sybase does ship the libraries in 64 bit mode there
> should normally also be a 32 bit version on the CD.
>
> Second - DBD::Sybase 0.94 won't build in 64 bit mode. However, try
> 0.94_01, which you can get from http://www.peppler.org/downloads,
> where I've applied the same fixes that enable sybperl
> (i.e. Sybase::CTlib and friends) to build in 64bit mode. Specifically
> Sybase has named all the 64bit libraries libxxx64.so, so the list of
> libraries need to be fixed, and a new -D flag needs to be included
> during the compile.
Let Sybase be an example to the rest of Database developing companies!
BTW Does Sybase in 32bit mode support 64bit-numeric fields in the database?
(Just curious)
Are databases created with a 64bit Sybase maintainable with 32bit Sybase?
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