>
> Jeff,
>
> one new issue with 1.06.
>
> o line 297 of the generated Makefile contains
> @$(NOOP)
> but those are spaces leading up to it instead of a tab. The
> line at fault is
> actually Makefile.PL line 427.
Fixed. Thanks.
>
> o the problem I reported (email subject line) still exists
> after I fixed above
> and installed 1.06. You are using Perl 5.8.0 on Windows
> whereas I am using
> Perl 5.6.1 on Linux. Here is the relevant stuff:
I have perl 5.8 on linux, but I'm not sure if I have 5.6.1 anywhere. I'll
have to look around. I'm out of the office, queueing up this e-mail, so
I'll have to get to it when I get back.
>
> martin /tmp-> perl -e 'use DBD::ODBC; print
> $DBD::ODBC::VERSION, "\n";' 1.06 martin /tmp-> perl -e 'use
> DBI;print $DBI::VERSION, "\n";' 1.37 martin /tmp-> perl --version
>
> This is perl, v5.6.1 built for i686-linux
>
> martin /tmp-> cat y.pl
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
>
> use DBI;
>
> my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:ODBC:testviagamb",
> "Fred",
> "Bloggs");
>
>
> martin /tmp-> ./y.pl
> Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i686-linux/DBI.pm line 584.
> DBI connect('testviagamb','Fred',...) failed: at ./y.pl line 5
>
> I've got identical stuff (DBI, DBD::ODBC, unixODBC, ODBC
> driver) installed on another Linux machine which runs Perl
> 5.8.0 and it works there OK.
So, it could be a perl version related issue rather than a platform related
one... Hmm...
>
> This is not affecting me personally, I just thought it needed
> reporting.
No problem. I'd rather get it right, if I can...
Thanks,
Jeff
> On 20-Jun-2003 Jeff Urlwin wrote:
> >
> > Hmm. I am looking to reproduce this on Windows XP and find that it
> > looks OK to me using Perl 5.8.0 and DBI 1.33, 1.35 and 1.37. I get
> > $DBI::errstr after each connect failure. I added a test
> specifically
> > for this and found some other connection issues when using DSN= or
> > DRIVER= in the connect strings, but I didn't see this connection
> > issue. Martin, I'm going to post the next version of
> DBD::ODBC shortly
> > and would you please let me know if you still see it?
> >
> > Thanks,
>
>
