I'm new to this list - I just wanted to share the solution to a problem I encountered. I am using Solaris 7, perl 5.6.0, Oracle 8.1.6, DBI 1.14, and DBD-Oracle 1.06. The problem I had was that perl scripts would core dump upon disconnecting from Oracle. dbish did this along with our scripts. Everything on this system was built with defaults, except for DBD-Oracle... perl Makefile.PL -p works for me, otherwise DBD-Oracle can't find libclntsh.so. The solution to the problem was suggested by another list user to solve a Solaris 8 problem. I forgot who it was - but thanks very much! I edited $ORACLE_HOME/lib/ldflags and removed "-lthread", then I executed $ORACLE_HOME/bin/genclntsh to relink libclntsh.so. Now everything works fine. --- Tim Rider Senior Software Engineer Innuity, Inc.
