I'm sorry, but are you saying that Oracle 8i ships with Solaris 8? That is simply not
true. In my earlier response, I should have pointed out that he will need to reinstall
Perl, which he can also obtain from the Sun freeware site. My apologies if I caused
any confusion.
Elaine -HFB- Ashton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Harold A. Jackson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
> *>The problem here is very simple: you don't have a c complier loaded on your
> system. The Sun c compiler is an extra that you will have to purchase
> separately. To get a c compiler that will work, go to the Sun freeware site
> and download the gcc compiler for your version of Solaris. After you have
> installed it (read directions) set your environment to point to the gcc
> compiler and you'll be in business.
>
> I'll guess that since he mentioned Oracle8i which shipped with Solaris 8
> as well as a cd of OpenSource packages such as Apace and Perl, that up
> until this time there has been no need for a compiler. Solaris 8 has a
> Perl but unless you install the FORTE compilers, it will default to trying
> to use 'cc' for all of it's XS needs so just installing the compiler will
> not do in this situation and he'll need to tell perl to use gcc every
> time.
>
> http://www.sunfreeware.com/ - get the gcc and Perl packages and start
> again and you shouldn't have any problem installing DBI.
>
> e.
>
--
Harold A. Jackson
Oracle/Sybase DBA
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