I don't recall how I installed, but I just went ahead and tried to re-install following your advice.
After doing the makefile and doing 'make', I get the following error message: /usr/bin/perl -p -e "s/~DRIVER~/Perl/g" < blib/arch/auto/DBI/Driver.xst > Perl.xsi /usr/bin/perl -I/usr/perl5/5.6.1/lib/sun4-solaris-64int -I/usr/perl5/5.6.1/lib /usr/perl5/5.6.1/lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp -typemap /usr/perl5/5.6.1/lib/ExtUtils/typemap -typemap typemap Perl.xs > Perl.xsc && mv Perl.xsc Perl.c cc -c -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -xO3 -xdepend -DVERSION=\"1.37\" -DXS_VERSION=\"1.37\" -KPIC -I/usr/perl5/5.6.1/lib/sun4-solaris-64int/CORE -DDBI_NO_THREADS Perl.c /usr/ucb/cc: language optional software package not installed make: *** [Perl.o] Error 1 It seems something is wrong with the compilation of the aforementioned C code. Is there something wrong with my C compiler, library files? Thanks, A. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Antonio Garcia-Martinez cryptologia.com On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Ronald J Kimball wrote: > On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 10:02:06AM -0700, Antonio Garcia wrote: > > > > I am intalling DBI on a Sun workstation. Since I don't have root access, I > > simply put DBI.pm in ~/perl, and then add it to @INC at runtime via > > Did you actually install the module, or did you just copy DBI.pm into > ~/perl? DBI has to be installed properly to work, because it includes C > code that must be compiled. > > You can easily install DBI anywhere you like, by running e.g.: > > perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=~/perl > > Ronald >
