David Sacks wrote: > The short - there is not a DBD:Oracle client that currently works > with the 9i Oracle drivers, however you the current DBD:Oracle still > works with the Oracle 8i client drivers with are fully compatible > with talking with a 9i server.
That's not really true. DBD-Oracle does work with 9i client libraries, I've been running it almost continuously for several months now at work (mostly against 9.2.0 libraries, but somtimes against 8.1.7 and 9.0.1, under both Solaris and Windows). However, there can be a bit of fiddling to be done to build DBD-Oracle on Solaris against 9i; you may have to change references to Oracle libraries in the Makefile from 'lib' to 'lib32' if you're building 32-bit. DBD-Oracle 1.14's Makefile doesn't seem to work out-of-the-box on Solaris; but 1.12's works after replacing 'lib' with 'lib32' for the Oracle library directories. I haven't yet got around to working out where the problem is with 1.14 and Solaris, but copying over 1.12's Makefile (after changing the versions and paths) works OK (even though it sounds like a bad idea). I believe there was also a patch to the makefile sent to this list recently addressing this issue. -- Andy Hassall ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) icq(5747695) (http://www.andyh.co.uk)
