Tim,
perl -MDBI -e "DBI->installed_versions" returns the following:
Can't locate auto/DBI/installed_v.al in @INC (@INC contains:
C:/Programs/perl/lib C:/Programs/perl/site/lib .)
at -e line 1
perl -MDBI -e "DBI->connect('DBI:Oracle:XYZDB', 'username', 'password')"
returns the following:
DBI connect('XYZDB','username',...) failed: at -e line 1
Peter
Tim Bunce wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 05:50:29PM -0500, Peter Chen wrote:
> > I have installed DBI 1.39 on a Win 2000 with Perl 5.6.1 and DBD::Oracle
> > 1.12.
> >
> > When I tried to connect to an Oracle database on UNIX with the following
> > code:
> > my $dbh = DBI->connect('DBI:Oracle:XYZDB', 'username', 'password');
> >
> > I got an error message from DBI.pm line 584: Use of unintialized value
> > in concatenation (.) or string at C:/programs/perl/site/lib/DBI.pm line
> > 584.
> >
> > Any thing wrong with my installation ? I installed DBI and DBD::Oracle
> > via ppm. I would appreciate any help. Thanks in advance.
>
> According to my source line 584 is
>
> $user = '' if !defined $user;
>
> and I doubt that would generate that warning.
>
> Please post the output of
>
> perl -MDBI -e "DBI->installed_versions"
> and
> perl -MDBI -e "DBI->connect('DBI:Oracle:XYZDB', 'username', 'password')"
>
> Tim.
