Hello, I have installed the following packages:
oracle-instantclient11.2-basic-11.2.0.2.0.x86_64.rpm oracle-instantclient11.2-devel-11.2.0.2.0.x86_64.rpm oracle-instantclient11.2-sqlplus-11.2.0.2.0.x86_64.rpm on my CentOS 5.5 Linux / 64 bit with perl 5.8.8 and have set the following env. variables: export TNS_ADMIN=/etc export ORACLE_HOME=/usr/lib/oracle/11.2 export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/client64/lib PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:/sbin:$ORACLE_HOME/client64/bin After that I'm able to access the remote Oracle database through sqlplus shell and PHP (with: extension=oci8.so) Installing DBD::Oracle through CPAN shell fails however (installing other Perl modules previously has worked well): # sudo -E perl -MCPAN -e shell cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.9402) Enter 'h' for help. cpan[1]> install DBD::Oracle CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.15) Going to read '/home/afarber/.cpan/Metadata' Database was generated on Mon, 06 Dec 2010 04:30:56 GMT Running install for module 'DBD::Oracle' Running make for T/TI/TIMB/DBD-Oracle-1.26.tar.gz CPAN: Digest::SHA loaded ok (v5.48) CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok (v2.03) Checksum for /home/afarber/.cpan/sources/authors/id/T/TI/TIMB/DBD-Oracle-1.26.tar.gz ok Scanning cache /home/afarber/.cpan/build for sizes .....................................---------------------------------------DONE DEL(1/22): /home/afarber/.cpan/build/Bundle-CPAN-1.858 DEL(2/22): /home/afarber/.cpan/build/DBD-Oracle-1.26 DEL(3/22): /home/afarber/.cpan/build/Test-Simple-0.96 DEL(4/22): /home/afarber/.cpan/build/FCGI-0.71 DEL(5/22): /home/afarber/.cpan/build/CGI.pm-3.50 DEL(6/22): /home/afarber/.cpan/build/CGI-Session-4.42 DEL(7/22): /home/afarber/.cpan/build/Sub-Uplevel-0.22 DEL(8/22): /home/afarber/.cpan/build/Test-Exception-0.31 DEL(9/22): /home/afarber/.cpan/build/Test-Tester-0.107 DEL(10/22): /home/afarber/.cpan/build/Test-NoWarnings-1.02 DEL(11/22): /home/afarber/.cpan/build/Test-Deep-0.108 DEL(12/22): /home/afarber/.cpan/build/Apache-Session-1.89 DEL(13/22): /home/afarber/.cpan/build/Test-Harness-3.22 DEL(14/22): /home/afarber/.cpan/build/ExtUtils-CBuilder-0.2703 DEL(15/22): /home/afarber/.cpan/build/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.56 DEL(16/22): /home/afarber/.cpan/build/PathTools-3.33 DEL(17/22): /home/afarber/.cpan/build/File-Temp-0.22 DEL(18/22): /home/afarber/.cpan/build/Scalar-List-Utils-1.23 DEL(19/22): /home/afarber/.cpan/build/Data-Dumper-2.128 DEL(20/22): /home/afarber/.cpan/build/Digest-SHA-5.48 DEL(21/22): /home/afarber/.cpan/build/Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2.031 DEL(22/22): /home/afarber/.cpan/build/Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.030 CPAN: Archive::Tar loaded ok (v1.72) DBD-Oracle-1.26/ DBD-Oracle-1.26/Changes DBD-Oracle-1.26/dbdimp.c DBD-Oracle-1.26/dbdimp.h DBD-Oracle-1.26/dbivport.h DBD-Oracle-1.26/hints/ DBD-Oracle-1.26/lib/ DBD-Oracle-1.26/Makefile.PL DBD-Oracle-1.26/MANIFEST DBD-Oracle-1.26/META.yml DBD-Oracle-1.26/mkta.pl DBD-Oracle-1.26/oci.def DBD-Oracle-1.26/oci8.c DBD-Oracle-1.26/ocitrace.h DBD-Oracle-1.26/ora_explain.PL DBD-Oracle-1.26/Oracle.ex/ DBD-Oracle-1.26/Oracle.h DBD-Oracle-1.26/Oracle.pm DBD-Oracle-1.26/Oracle.xs DBD-Oracle-1.26/oraperl.ph DBD-Oracle-1.26/Oraperl.pm DBD-Oracle-1.26/README DBD-Oracle-1.26/README-files/ DBD-Oracle-1.26/README.64bit.txt DBD-Oracle-1.26/README.aix.txt DBD-Oracle-1.26/README.clients.txt DBD-Oracle-1.26/README.explain.txt DBD-Oracle-1.26/README.help.txt DBD-Oracle-1.26/README.hpux.txt DBD-Oracle-1.26/README.java.txt DBD-Oracle-1.26/README.linux.txt DBD-Oracle-1.26/README.login.txt DBD-Oracle-1.26/README.longs.txt DBD-Oracle-1.26/README.macosx.txt DBD-Oracle-1.26/README.sec.txt DBD-Oracle-1.26/README.sun.txt DBD-Oracle-1.26/README.vms.txt DBD-Oracle-1.26/README.win32.txt DBD-Oracle-1.26/README.win64.txt DBD-Oracle-1.26/README.wingcc.txt DBD-Oracle-1.26/t/ DBD-Oracle-1.26/test.pl DBD-Oracle-1.26/Todo DBD-Oracle-1.26/typemap DBD-Oracle-1.26/t/01base.t DBD-Oracle-1.26/t/10general.t DBD-Oracle-1.26/t/12impdata.t DBD-Oracle-1.26/t/14threads.t DBD-Oracle-1.26/t/15nls.t DBD-Oracle-1.26/t/20select.t DBD-Oracle-1.26/t/21nchar.t DBD-Oracle-1.26/t/22nchar_al32utf8.t DBD-Oracle-1.26/t/22nchar_utf8.t DBD-Oracle-1.26/t/23wide_db.t DBD-Oracle-1.26/t/23wide_db_8bit.t DBD-Oracle-1.26/t/23wide_db_al32utf8.t DBD-Oracle-1.26/t/24implicit_utf8.t DBD-Oracle-1.26/t/25plsql.t DBD-Oracle-1.26/t/26exe_array.t DBD-Oracle-1.26/t/28array_bind.t DBD-Oracle-1.26/t/30long.t DBD-Oracle-1.26/t/31lob.t DBD-Oracle-1.26/t/31lob_extended.t DBD-Oracle-1.26/t/32xmltype.t DBD-Oracle-1.26/t/34pres_lobs.t DBD-Oracle-1.26/t/40ph_type.t DBD-Oracle-1.26/t/50cursor.t DBD-Oracle-1.26/t/51scroll.t DBD-Oracle-1.26/t/55nested.t DBD-Oracle-1.26/t/56embbeded.t DBD-Oracle-1.26/t/58object.t DBD-Oracle-1.26/t/60reauth.t DBD-Oracle-1.26/t/70meta.t DBD-Oracle-1.26/t/80ora_charset.t DBD-Oracle-1.26/t/nchar_test_lib.pl DBD-Oracle-1.26/README-files/hpux/ DBD-Oracle-1.26/README-files/hpux/Conf-Lincoln-1.06 DBD-Oracle-1.26/README-files/hpux/Conf-Lincoln-1.07 DBD-Oracle-1.26/README-files/hpux/Conf-Merijn-580-10.20-cc DBD-Oracle-1.26/README-files/hpux/Conf-Merijn-585-11.00-cc DBD-Oracle-1.26/README-files/hpux/Conf-Merijn-585-11.11-cc DBD-Oracle-1.26/README-files/hpux/Conf-Merijn-587-11.23-cc DBD-Oracle-1.26/README-files/hpux/Conf-Merijn-588-10.20-gcc DBD-Oracle-1.26/README-files/hpux/Conf-Merijn-588-11.00-gcc32 DBD-Oracle-1.26/README-files/hpux/Conf-Merijn-588-11.00-gcc64 DBD-Oracle-1.26/README-files/hpux/Conf-Merijn-588-11.11-gcc32 DBD-Oracle-1.26/README-files/hpux/Conf-Merijn-588-11.11-gcc64 DBD-Oracle-1.26/README-files/hpux/Conf-Merijn-588-11.23-gcc64 DBD-Oracle-1.26/README-files/hpux/Conf-Mike DBD-Oracle-1.26/README-files/hpux/Conf-Roger DBD-Oracle-1.26/README-files/hpux/libjava.eml DBD-Oracle-1.26/README-files/hpux/Makefile-Lincoln DBD-Oracle-1.26/Oracle.ex/bind.pl DBD-Oracle-1.26/Oracle.ex/commit.pl DBD-Oracle-1.26/Oracle.ex/curref.pl DBD-Oracle-1.26/Oracle.ex/ex.pl DBD-Oracle-1.26/Oracle.ex/japh DBD-Oracle-1.26/Oracle.ex/mktable.pl DBD-Oracle-1.26/Oracle.ex/oradump.pl DBD-Oracle-1.26/Oracle.ex/proc.pl DBD-Oracle-1.26/Oracle.ex/README DBD-Oracle-1.26/Oracle.ex/sql DBD-Oracle-1.26/Oracle.ex/tabinfo.pl DBD-Oracle-1.26/lib/DBD/ DBD-Oracle-1.26/lib/DBD/Oracle/ DBD-Oracle-1.26/lib/DBD/Oracle/GetInfo.pm DBD-Oracle-1.26/lib/DBD/Oracle/Object.pm DBD-Oracle-1.26/hints/dgux.pl DBD-Oracle-1.26/hints/macos_bundle.syms DBD-Oracle-1.26/hints/macos_lib.syms DBD-Oracle-1.26/hints/macos_syms.pl DBD-Oracle-1.26/hints/svr4.pl CPAN: File::Temp loaded ok (v0.22) CPAN: YAML loaded ok (v0.72) CPAN.pm: Going to build T/TI/TIMB/DBD-Oracle-1.26.tar.gz Using DBI 1.52 (for perl 5.008008 on x86_64-linux-thread-multi) installed in /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/auto/DBI/ Configuring DBD::Oracle for perl 5.008008 on linux (x86_64-linux-thread-multi) Remember to actually *READ* the README file! Especially if you have any problems. The ORACLE_HOME environment variable value (/usr/lib/oracle/11.2) is not valid. It must be set to hold the path to an Oracle installation directory on this machine (or a machine with a compatible architecture). For an Instant Client install, the directory should include an sdk subdirectory. See the appropriate README file for your OS for more information. ABORTED! Warning: No success on command[/usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL] TIMB/DBD-Oracle-1.26.tar.gz /usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL -- NOT OK Running make test Make had some problems, won't test Running make install Make had some problems, won't install Failed during this command: TIMB/DBD-Oracle-1.26.tar.gz : writemakefile NO '/usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL' returned status 512 The "sdk" subdir mentioned above doesn't really exist in the rpm: # rpm -ql oracle-instantclient11.2-devel | grep -i sdk # Thank you Alex # perl -V Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 8) configuration: Platform: osname=linux, osvers=2.6.18-53.el5, archname=x86_64-linux-thread-multi uname='linux builder10.centos.org 2.6.18-53.el5 #1 smp mon nov 12 02:14:55 est 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 gnulinux ' config_args='-des -Doptimize=-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic -Dversion=5.8.8 -Dmyhostname=localhost -dperladmin=r...@localhost -Dcc=gcc -Dcf_by=Red Hat, Inc. -Dinstallprefix=/usr -Dprefix=/usr -Dlibpth=/usr/local/lib64 /lib64 /usr/lib64 -Dprivlib=/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8 -Dsitelib=/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 -Dvendorlib=/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8 -Darchlib=/usr/lib64/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi -Dsitearch=/usr/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi -Dvendorarch=/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi -Darchname=x86_64-linux-thread-multi -Dvendorprefix=/usr -Dsiteprefix=/usr -Duseshrplib -Dusethreads -Duseithreads -Duselargefiles -Dd_dosuid -Dd_semctl_semun -Di_db -Ui_ndbm -Di_gdbm -Di_shadow -Di_syslog -Dman3ext=3pm -Duseperlio -Dinstallusrbinperl=n -Ubincompat5005 -Uversiononly -Dpager=/usr/bin/less -isr -Dd_gethostent_r_proto -Ud_endhostent_r_proto -Ud_sethostent_r_proto -Ud_endprotoent_r_proto -Ud_setprotoent_r_proto -Ud_endservent_r_proto -Ud_setservent_r_proto -Dinc_version_list=5.8.7 5.8.6 5.8.5 -Dscriptdir=/usr/bin' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define usethreads=define use5005threads=undef useithreads=define usemultiplicity=define useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef use64bitint=define use64bitall=define uselongdouble=undef usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef Compiler: cc='gcc', ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -Wdeclaration-after-statement -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/include/gdbm', optimize='-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic', cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -Wdeclaration-after-statement -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include/gdbm' ccversion='', gccversion='4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-48)', gccosandvers='' intsize=4, longsize=8, ptrsize=8, doublesize=8, byteorder=12345678 d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16 ivtype='long', ivsize=8, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8 alignbytes=8, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='gcc', ldflags ='' libpth=/usr/local/lib64 /lib64 /usr/lib64 libs=-lresolv -lnsl -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lpthread -lc perllibs=-lresolv -lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lpthread -lc libc=, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so gnulibc_version='2.5' Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Wl,-E -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib64/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/CORE' cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-shared -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT PERL_MALLOC_WRAP USE_64_BIT_ALL USE_64_BIT_INT USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES USE_PERLIO USE_REENTRANT_API Built under linux Compiled at Sep 28 2010 08:50:01 @INC: /usr/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib64/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8 .