Hello,
I was trying to install the perl DBD::Oracle, using the Makefile.PL
released June 6th 2001. We are running perl version 5.004_04, on
solaris 5.5.1 and solaris 5.7 machines.
I got the following syntax error running the script:
>> syntax error at Makefile.PL line 620, near "$_
>> for "
>> Execution of Makefile.PL_backup aborted due to compilation errors.
I tried to understand what that line was trying to accomplish, (always a
task for us once-per-week Perl users when the "Use English" library is
not specified) and came up with the following substitution:
OLD LINE:
$self->{PM}->{$_} = '$(INST_ARCHAUTODIR)/'.$_
for (qw(mk.pm Oracle.h dbdimp.h ocitrace.h));
NEW LINE:
foreach my $neato_file (qw(mk.pm Oracle.h dbdimp.h ocitrace.h)) {
$self->{PM}->{$neato_file} = '$(INST_ARCHAUTODIR)/'.$neato_file;
}
After changing this, it compiled, created the Makefile, and then built
the library.
Unfortunately, the module calls the Oracle.so library that linked to a
required dynamic library not available to Solaris 5.5.1.
>> libgen.so.1 => (file not found)
So we can only use the perl module from our Solaris 5.7 machines. This
is not a problem, but did take us some time to discover.
I just thought I'd share our discoveries, in case anyone else has these
problems, or my solutions / assumptions are not correct, and it didn't
work as well as I thought it did.
Thanks
-Brent Keller
