Darin, I was able to get LDAP to work on 5.8 by loading perl-ldap.28 with PPM. There is no DBD-DB2 for 5.8. We could probably get it to work using something else, but we came to find out 5.6 exists on the server and not 5.8. Other departments use 5.6. We are going to downgrade back to 5.6. Thanks
>From: Darin McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 08:18:30 -0600 > >David McDivitt wrote: > >> I installed Perl 5.8 and with PPM installed DBI and ODBC. Being new to >> Perl I was happy how everything worked. Saving all my configuration steps >> I made a document detailing such for others to use. Upon reading my >> document someone installed 5.6 instead of 5.8 by mistake and used PPM to >> install DBD-DB2 and Net-LDAP. >> >> Another person installed Perl and used 5.8. DBD-DB2 and Net-LDAP would not >> install and could not be found. The person with 5.6 uninstalled that and >> installed 5.8 to see what would happen. Desired packages would not install >> there, either. >> >> It was good fortune and coincidental this person installed 5.6, initially, >> since nothing would have worked and development could not have been done >> so rapidly. Also, I would not have looked so good to everyone :) >> >> We are now wondering if we must all go back to 5.6 so we can install >> DBD-DB2 and Net-LDAP. LDAP data looks simple and I'm sure I could write a >> module to read it, but we need DB2 to work, and I would prefer not to >> write an LDAP module. > >I'm not sure who is responsible for producing the PPMs - I know that >I've got DBD::DB2 and Net::LDAP working on Perl 5.8 on Linux, but >that's because I have a compiler that I can compile the xs code with >(I'm not sure Net::LDAP has xs code, though). > >If you have a C/C++ compiler, you should be able to use it with the >Application Development Tools (part of the App Dev Client in v7, or >part of App Dev Client and all servers in v8) to compile DBD::DB2 to >work on your system. > >For Net::LDAP, if it has any xs code, you will also need a compiler, >but if it doesn't have any, you should be able to follow the process >normally to add the files to your installation of perl 5.8. > >DB2PERL - is this (PPM) ActiveState's issue or IBM's?
