On Mon 17 Mar 2003 19:39, "H.Merijn Brand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > HP-UX 11.00, Oracle 8.1.7.4/32, DBI-1.35, perl-5.8.0 (+ defined/or)
Some whitespace, some explanations, feel free to ignore Also feel free to note that recent perl builds are and will be available on https://www.beepz.com/personal/merijn/ or http://www.cmve.net/~merijn/ that include recent precompiled DBI and are prepared for Oracle (-lcl -lpthread) --- README.hpux.org 2002-08-03 22:03:47.000000000 +0200 +++ README.hpux 2003-03-18 09:57:20.000000000 +0100 @@ -1,10 +1,10 @@ =head1 INTRODUCTION Building a working dynamically linked version of the Oracle DBD driver -on HP-UX (11.00) has been a challenge for many. For months after taking a -new job, where HP-UX was the standard database server environment, I had only been -able to build a statically linked version of perl and the DBD-Oracle -module on HP-UX 11.00. +on HP-UX (11.00) has been a challenge for many. For months after taking +a new job, where HP-UX was the standard database server environment, I +had only been able to build a statically linked version of perl and the +DBD-Oracle module on HP-UX 11.00. Then Roger Foskett posted instructions for what turned out to be dynamic build. Rogers's post got me farther than I had previously gotten. In fact, @@ -39,17 +39,25 @@ HP's default perl is no good (and antique). -By default, HP-UX 11.00 delivers perl 5.00503. Others tell me that -the default is a threaded GNUpro build of 5.6.1. This is not what I -found our systems, and it probably depends on which packages you -install. In any case, this version of perl delivered by HP will -in all likelihood not work. - -If you are reading this, you -have probably discovered that something did not work. To get good -version of the DBD-Oracle driver, we have to start with a perl that as -been built with the correct compiler flags and shared libraries. This -means that you must build your own version of perl from +By default, HP-UX 11.00 delivers perl 5.00503 until September 2001. +Others tell me that the default is a threaded GNUpro build of 5.6.1. +This is not what I found our systems, and it probably depends on which +packages you install. In any case, this version of perl delivered by +HP will in all likelihood not work. Before you check, be sure to prevent +perl4 from /usr/contrib/bin to be the first perl version found in your $PATH. + +As of application release September 2001, HP-UX 11.00 is shipped with +perl-5.6.1 in /opt/perl. The first occurrence is on CD 5012-7954. The +build is a portable hppa-1.1 multithread build that supports large files +compiled with gcc-2.9-hppa-991112. When you have a modern system with a +hppa-2.0 architecture (PA8xxx processor) and/or the HP C-ANSI-C compiler +consider building your own perl, which will for sure outperform this +version. + +If you are reading this, you have probably discovered that something did +not work. To get good version of the DBD-Oracle driver, we have to start +with a perl that as been built with the correct compiler flags and shared +libraries. This means that you must build your own version of perl from sources. See L<Appendix A> for a copy of a makefile used by me to biuld @@ -94,6 +102,10 @@ cleanly using the HP softbench compiler, and Oracle 8.0.5 (32bit), and Oracle 8.1.6, 8.1.7 (64 bit). Oracle 8.1.5 will probably work as well. +Oracle 8.1.7.4 (32bit) with DBI-1.35 and DBD-Oracle-1.13 has been proven +to work on HP-UX 11.00 (64bit) with perl5.6.1, perl5.8.0, and perl5.9.0, +using the guidelines in this document for both HP-C-ANSI-C and gcc-3.2. + =head2 gcc Compiler For along time many folks have asked, how they could build a DBD-Oracle @@ -156,8 +168,8 @@ For example: What libraries to use? [-lnsl -lnm -lndbm -lmalloc -ldld -lm -lc -lndir -lcrypt -lsec] -lcl -lpthread -lnsl -lnm -lndbm -lmalloc -ldld -lm -lc -lndir -lcrypt -lsec -H.Merijn Brand notes that the above can be accomplished by adding the following to -the ./Configure command line: +H.Merijn Brand notes that the above can be accomplished by adding the +following to the ./Configure command line: -A prepend:libswanted='cl pthread ' @@ -221,7 +233,7 @@ =head1 Build and Install DBI - cd DBI-1.18/ + cd DBI-1.35/ perl Makefile.PL make make test @@ -1088,7 +1100,7 @@ Roger also provides a link to some threads containing some of his -DBD-Oracle and HP-UX11 trials... +DBD-Oracle and HP-UX 11 trials... L<http://www.geocrawler.com/search/?config=183&words=Roger+Foskett> -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using perl-5.6.1, 5.8.0 & 632 on HP-UX 10.20 & 11.00, AIX 4.2, AIX 4.3, WinNT 4, Win2K pro & WinCE 2.11 often with Tk800.024 &/| DBD-Unify ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/authors/id/H/HM/HMBRAND/
