Not sure, but why not upgrade your outdated perl. You'll probably find more
than a few modules that will give you problems under this version.
Ilya
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 10:11 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Makefile on DBD::Oracle quits
>
>
> Hi Tim,
>
> I've tried to run the Makefile.PL under perl version 5.004_01 on
> an AIX UNIX machine, but all I get is the following error:
>
> syntax error at Makefile.PL line 620, near "$_
> for "
> Execution of Makefile.PL aborted due to compilation errors.
>
> Do you know what this means and how I could fix it so I can
> proceed to step 2?
>
> -- version of Oracle: 8.0.5.
>
> -- results of perl -V:
>
> Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 4 subversion 1) configuration:
> Platform:
> osname=aix, osvers=4.2.1.0, archname=aix
> uname='aix iavnr4 2 4 002010076700 '
> hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
> bincompat3=y useperlio= d_sfio=
> Compiler:
> cc='cc', optimize='-O', gccversion=
> cppflags='-qmaxmem=8192 -D_ALL_SOURCE -D_ANSI_C_SOURCE
> -D_POSIX_SOURCE -I/usr/local/include'
> ccflags ='-qmaxmem=8192 -D_ALL_SOURCE -D_ANSI_C_SOURCE
> -D_POSIX_SOURCE -I/usr/local/include'
> stdchar='unsigned char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false
> voidflags=15, castflags=1, d_casti32=define, d_castneg=
> intsize=4, alignbytes=8, usemymalloc=n, randbits=15
> Linker and Libraries:
> ld='ld', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
> libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib
> libs=-lnsl -ldbm -ldl -lld -lm -lc -lbsd -lPW
> libc=/lib/libc.a, so=a
> useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
> Dynamic Linking:
> dlsrc=dl_aix.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=, ccdlflags='-bE:perl.exp'
> cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags='-H512 -T512 -bhalt:4 -bM:SRE
> -bI:$(PERL_INC)/perl.exp -bE:$(BASEEXT).e
> xp -b noentry -lc -L/usr/local/lib'
>
>
> Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
> Built under aix
> Compiled at Sep 26 1997 16:06:03
> @INC:
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/aix/5.00401
> /usr/local/lib/perl5
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/aix
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl
> .
>
> Cheers,
>
> Maurice Dekker
>
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