DBI::PurePerl and DBD::Oracle error

[Frederic Van de Velde]

Hi,

I'm trying to run some perl (currently 5.00503) on AIX 4.3 to connect an 
Oracle 8 database on the same system (DBD::Oracle is 1.06)
My problem is that I want to use the "HandleError" method of DBI but I 
only find a pre-compiled version of DBI 1.14 which doens't have this 
method yet.
As I can't compile anything on this system, I'm trying to use 
DBI::PurePerl (I don't need performance and only want to do a SELECT and 
some little UPDATE).

With this little script, I got an error :
Use of uninitialized value at 
/usr/opt/perl5/lib/5.00503/aix/DynaLoader.pm line 188.
error: install_driver(Oracle) failed: Unable to get DBI state. DBI not 
loaded. at /usr/opt/perl5/lib/5.00503/aix/DynaLoader.pm line 188.
 at testoracle.pl line 15

BEGIN {
 $ENV{DBI_PUREPERL} = 2;
 $ENV{ORACLE_HOME} = "/oracle";
 unshift @INC, 'lib';
}

use strict;
use DBI;

my $dbh;
eval {
  $dbh = DBI->connect(
    "DBI:Oracle:sid=ORCL;port=1521;host=oracle_host",
    "username",
    "password"
  );
};

if ( $@ ) {
  print "error: $@\n";
}