I would start by building your own perl from source. OS vendor delivered perls tend to be pretty broken, especially when it comes to adding modules that require compilation.
If you build your own tree, no matter which compiler you use, you will have far fewer problems, and it will be easier for others to help. It not that hard hard. You can do it in several hours (if you interactively answer all the questions). If you do what most of us do, and specific all the crucial answers on the command line of the configure script, it will probably take less than an hour, soup to nuts. A side benefit is that you will be able to build a version of perl that is less antique. I would recommend 5.8.2 at least, especially if you plan to support Unicode (support for which is in the works). I will admit that I have not yet tried solaris 9, but I would be surprized if it were a problem, if you build perl from scratch. Lincoln On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 16:34, Tim Bunce wrote: > ----- Forwarded message from "Whitener, Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- > > Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > X-Pobox-Antispam: Bad HELO hostname returned DENY: no MX or A records found for > HUGO.external.gmacinsurance.com > X-SPF-Guess: pass (seems reasonable for [EMAIL PROTECTED] to mail through > 167.19.248.20) > Subject: DBD::Oracle > Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 13:43:34 -0400 > From: "Whitener, Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > X-OriginalArrivalTime: 17 May 2004 17:43:34.0370 (UTC) FILETIME=[79DDDC20:01C43C36] > > Hi Tim, > > Is there a a documented set of procedures to load DBI::Oracle and DBD::Oracle to > Sol9 with the Oracle > 9.2.0.X CLIENT using the perl that comes with Solaris (5.6.1)? > > I can get DBI in just great but can not get DBD to go! I used DBI-1.4.2 and have > tried DBD-1.13 to > 1.15. I loaded a trial of Sun's compiler suite to get this in. (My boss does > not want me to use gcc.) > I am getting a complex over this! I have a dba breathing down my neck. > > Thanks in advance for any help you can provide. > > God bless, > > Paul Whitener > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Note: > > The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and > protected from > disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an > employee or agent > responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby > notified that any > dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly > prohibited. If you have > received this communication in error, please notify us > immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Thank > you. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ----- End forwarded message ----- >
