Hello Hugh,
you wrote:
> 1) Either open an NFS share from the oracle installation directory on the
> machine that has Oracle and point both of the above-mentioned env vars to
> that share, or alternatively copy the following four directories from your
> Oracle installation over to the machine on which you are compiling the
DBD:
>
> drwxr-xr-x 3 oracle dba 3072 Jul 3 09:36 lib
> drwxr-xr-x 13 oracle dba 512 Jul 3 09:38 network
> drwxr-xr-x 7 oracle dba 512 Jul 2 19:25 plsql
> drwxr-xr-x 12 oracle dba 512 Jul 3 09:38 rdbms
>
That's in my opion not the best way to install an oracle client.
Much saver is to use the oracle installer and to install the oracle software
locally (I usually install sqlnet + pro*c + sqlplus). After this some tests
with sqlnet (tnsping) are an good idea to make sure that everything is
configured well at the end.
Greetings Heiko
