The compiler is the latest version from Sun as Forte or I guess it is SunOne now. I had tried to build a 5.8 64 bit Perl a few months back and ran into serious make problems and abandoned that idea. I have checked and have the sparcv9 version of ld in the path. This Oracle is patched to 9.2.0.3.0 currently.
64-bit perl does build OK, but unless you need huge (>4Gb) amounts of data, I'd recommend you avoid it.
I have mixed feelings about forcing it to use the 32 bit library set. I'll try this as a last resort work around. We are building customer deliverables and need this process to be repeatable with documentation on the next CPAN upgrade.
You won't *ever* get it to link unless you do. I know a patch was submitted for this a while back, and I'm sure Tim has something in the works. If your perl is 32-bit (and as I said I recommend that it is) you will need to link against the 32-bit Oracle libraries. There should be absolutely *no* issue with running a 32-bit client (e.g. DBD::Oracle) against a 64-bit Database server.
-- Alan Burlison --
