Hello! This is my first time posting to any mailing list. I am trying to install DBD-Oracle-1.06 with DBI-1.14 (I've also tried 1.15). I am running Redhat Linux 6.2 and Oracle8i 8.15.0.0. The DBI installation went smoothly. I've run into problems with the DBD install. I've run perl Makefile.PL and I get the following error. ********* ERROR MESSAGE 1 ******** You have a wait.ph file generated by perl h2ph utility. It does not define a WCOREDUMP function. That's probably an error. If a DBD::Oracle test fails then you will probably see a message from Test::Harness about WCOREDUMP being undefined. You can either ignore it or try to fix your wait.ph file. The message does not reflect the cause of the test failure, it's just a problem interpreting the failure. ********************************** I've read other messages from people with the same problem. It seems that some people ignore it which I did but then I get the following error each time I try to run "make". It is an error stating that it could not find -lsql. Can anyone help with this? ********* ERROR MESSAGE 2 ******** mkdir blib mkdir blib/lib mkdir blib/lib/DBD mkdir blib/arch mkdir blib/arch/auto mkdir blib/arch/auto/DBD mkdir blib/arch/auto/DBD/Oracle mkdir blib/lib/auto mkdir blib/lib/auto/DBD mkdir blib/lib/auto/DBD/Oracle mkdir blib/man1 mkdir blib/man3 cp Oraperl.pm blib/lib/Oraperl.pm cp Oracle.pm blib/lib/DBD/Oracle.pm cp oraperl.ph blib/lib/oraperl.ph /usr/bin/perl -p -e "s/~DRIVER~/Oracle/g" < /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux/auto/DBI/Driver.xst > Oracle.xsi /usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/i386-linux -I/usr/lib/perl5/5.00503 /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/ExtUtils/xsubpp -typemap /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/ExtUtils/typemap Oracle.xs >xstmp.c && mv xstmp.c Oracle.c cc -c -I/var/OraHome/rdbms/demo -I/var/OraHome/rdbms/public -I/var/OraHome/plsql/public -I/var/OraHome/network/public -I/var/OraHome/rdbms/demo -I/var/OraHome/rdbms/demo -I/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux/auto/DBI -Dbool=char -DHAS_BOOL -I/usr/local/include -O2 -m486 -fno-strength-reduce -DVERSION=\"1.06\" -DXS_VERSION=\"1.06\" -fpic -I/usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/i386-linux/CORE Oracle.c cc -c -I/var/OraHome/rdbms/demo -I/var/OraHome/rdbms/public -I/var/OraHome/plsql/public -I/var/OraHome/network/public -I/var/OraHome/rdbms/demo -I/var/OraHome/rdbms/demo -I/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux/auto/DBI -Dbool=char -DHAS_BOOL -I/usr/local/include -O2 -m486 -fno-strength-reduce -DVERSION=\"1.06\" -DXS_VERSION=\"1.06\" -fpic -I/usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/i386-linux/CORE dbdimp.c cc -c -I/var/OraHome/rdbms/demo -I/var/OraHome/rdbms/public -I/var/OraHome/plsql/public -I/var/OraHome/network/public -I/var/OraHome/rdbms/demo -I/var/OraHome/rdbms/demo -I/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux/auto/DBI -Dbool=char -DHAS_BOOL -I/usr/local/include -O2 -m486 -fno-strength-reduce -DVERSION=\"1.06\" -DXS_VERSION=\"1.06\" -fpic -I/usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/i386-linux/CORE oci7.c cc -c -I/var/OraHome/rdbms/demo -I/var/OraHome/rdbms/public -I/var/OraHome/plsql/public -I/var/OraHome/network/public -I/var/OraHome/rdbms/demo -I/var/OraHome/rdbms/demo -I/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux/auto/DBI -Dbool=char -DHAS_BOOL -I/usr/local/include -O2 -m486 -fno-strength-reduce -DVERSION=\"1.06\" -DXS_VERSION=\"1.06\" -fpic -I/usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/i386-linux/CORE oci8.c Running Mkbootstrap for DBD::Oracle () chmod 644 Oracle.bs LD_RUN_PATH="" cc -o blib/arch/auto/DBD/Oracle/Oracle.so -shared -L/usr/local/lib Oracle.o dbdimp.o oci7.o oci8.o -L/var/OraHome/lib/ -L/var/OraHome/rdbms/lib -lclntsh /var/OraHome/lib/nautab.o /var/OraHome/lib/naeet.o /var/OraHome/lib/naect.o /var/OraHome/lib/naedhs.o `cat /var/OraHome/network/lib/ldflags` -ln8 -lnl8 -lnro8 `cat /var/OraHome/network/lib/ldflags` -ln8 -lnl8 -lclient8 -lvsn8 -lcommon8 -lskgxp8 -lgeneric8 -lmm -lnls8 -lcore8 -lnls8 -lcore8 -lnls8 `cat /var/OraHome/network/lib/ldflags` -ln8 -lnl8 -lnro8 `cat /var/OraHome/network/lib/ldflags` -ln8 -lnl8 -lclient8 -lvsn8 -lcommon8 -lskgxp8 -lgeneric8 -ltrace8 -lnls8 -lcore8 -lnls8 -lcore8 -lnls8 -lclient8 -lvsn8 -lcommon8 -lskgxp8 -lgeneric8 -lnls8 -lcore8 -lnls8 -lcore8 -lnls8 `cat /var/OraHome/lib/sysliblist` `if [ -f /usr/lib/libsched.so ] ; then echo -lsched ; else true; fi` -ldl -lm -ldl `cat /var/OraHome/network/lib/ldflags` -ln8 -lnl8 -lnro8 `cat /var/OraHome/network/lib/ldflags` -ln8 -lnl8 `cat /var/OraHome/network/lib/ldflags` -ln8 -lnl8 -lnro8 `cat /var/OraHome/network/lib/ldflags` -ln8 -lnl8 `cat /var/OraHome/network/lib/ldflags` -ln8 -lnl8 -lnro8 `cat /var/OraHome/network/lib/ldflags` -ln8 -lnl8 `cat /var/OraHome/network/lib/ldflags` -ln8 -lnl8 -lnro8 `cat /var/OraHome/network/lib/ldflags` -ln8 -lnl8 `cat /var/OraHome/network/lib/ldflags` -ln8 -lnl8 -lnro8 `cat /var/OraHome/network/lib/ldflags` -ln8 -lnl8 -lsql -lsql /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lsql collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [blib/arch/auto/DBD/Oracle/Oracle.so] Error 1 ********END********* Marie Garcia
