DBI manages the DBD modules and provides services to them. Any time you
re-build DBI, you should re-build the DBD modules. The same goes for any
compiled module when you re-build Perl.
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Give a hobbit a ring and he'll eat fish for an age.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 11:35 AM
Subject: Illegal instruction error with Perl 5.6
> I'm new not only to Perl, but to Unix as well. Sorry. To make it worse,
I'm
> a Mac user in a former life, so things like paths, environment variables,
> etc. are foreign.
>
> So if I've made a dumb error, covered in an FAQ or the documentation
> somewhere, feel free to say so nicely.
>
> I had an installation of Perl 5.004_05 and DBI 1.13 working with an mSQL
> data base. I create scripts, which I could run from the command line as
any
> user (chmod 755, etc.) and which worked when invoked from the Apache
server
> (1.3.9). This is all running on a Solaris 2.7 system, if that matters.
>
> Recently I upgraded to Perl 5.6, using most of the defaults (except I used
> gcc as the compiler) and following closely the instructions about
upgrading
> and using 5.6 with an older version of Perl. After upgrading, for some
> reason, I couldn't run any of the scripts that called the mSQL database
and
> DBI had to be reinstalled. I installed DBI 1.14 following all of the
> instructions, including the recommendations to remove some older files.
>
> Now, I can run the scripts that call the database as root without error.
All
> other users the script fails with an "illegal instruction" as the only
error
> message (tried it with -w, -d etc.)
