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Environment: Interbase 5.5 SunOS sundev 5.8 Generic_108528-12 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-80 Perl - latest version from CPAN 5.6? DBD::InterBase v 0.28.4 Sept 5, 2001 c compiler: gcc question/problem statement: i have reviewed the faq's and readme on http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=DBD-InterBase and have not found the information that we need for our unix system admin to sucessfully install the DBD::Interbase package on our Sun Solaris box. we have recently built the newest verion of perl on the sundev box. the installatio was clean. however we keep getting error messages stating that the make test portion of the install for DBD has failed. please see below for the output from the test. can someone give us a push in the right direction? any and all help would be appreciated. thx mark >>>>>>>>>>>>> cut here <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< the failure seems to be happening after we do th Mark, This is a copy of the error message I am getting: Running make test PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl -Iblib/arch -Iblib/lib -I/opt/sfw/lib/perl5/5.6.1/sun4-solaris -I/opt/sfw/lib/perl5/5.6.1 -e 'use Test::Harness qw(&runtests $verbose); $verbose=0; runtests @ARGV;' t/*.t t/00base............ok t/10dsnlist.........ok t/20createdrop......ok t/30insertfetch.....ok t/40alltypes........DBD::InterBase::db do failed: Invalid token -Dynamic SQL Error -SQL error code = -104 -Database SQL dialect 1 does not support reference to TIME datatype DBD::InterBase::db prepare failed: Undefined name -Dynamic SQL Error -SQL error code = -204 -Table unknown -BUILTIN Can't call method "execute" on an undefined value at t/40alltypes.t line 131. t/40alltypes........dubious Test returned status 22 (wstat 5632, 0x1600) DIED. FAILED tests 2-25 Failed 24/25 tests, 4.00% okay t/40bindparam.......ok t/40blobs...........ok t/40cursor..........ok t/40doparam.........ok t/40listfields......ok t/40nulls...........ok t/40numrows.........ok t/50chopblanks......ok t/50commit..........ok t/61settx...........ok t/ak-dbd............ok t/dbdadmin..........ok Failed Test Status Wstat Total Fail Failed List of Failed ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- t/40alltypes.t 22 5632 25 24 96.00% 2-25 Failed 1/17 test scripts, 94.12% okay. 24/295 subtests failed, 91.86% okay. gmake: *** [test_dynamic] Error 29 /opt/sfw/bin/gmake test -- NOT OK Running make install make test had returned bad status, won't install without force Bundle summary: The following items in bundle Bundle::DBD::InterBase had installation problems: DBD::InterBase
