Henry McGuinness wrote:
Does anybody have experience using DBI with Activestate's Perl for HP-UX 11? Does the PPM work in the same way as it does for the Windows version.
Not being aware that there was an ActiveState version of Perl for any platform other than MS Win32, there's no way I can answer that.
Specifically, a colleague of mine wants to use
DBD::Informix, and had given up on the re-compiling
perl + module with gcc.
You only need to recompile if you don't have the compiler that created Perl. If you have the original compiler, there should be no need to recompile.
What was the hold-up? There's a file (Notes/hpux-gcc-build.sh) in the distribution of DBD::Informix which documents what was needed to build GCC on HP-UX 10.20 -- it should not be much different on HP-UX 11, though you can find newer versions of all the utilities.
Even if there's a PPM module for DBD::Informix out there (which I doubt), you will still need the I-Connect or ClientSDK on the machine, and preferably in the same place that the PPM expects. Frankly, I think it should be easier to rebuild, but I've had more practice than most, so maybe my views aren't representative.PPM would make his life a lot easier, but I've searched activestate, google and google groups in vain for info.
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