On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 01:49:03PM -0400, Vinnie Lima wrote:
> Are you required to have access to Oracle libraries when installing the
> DBD Oracle perl module in an UNIX machine?
This information is in the README file distributed with DBD-Oracle:
Install enough Oracle software to enable DBD::Oracle to build.
That usually includes Pro*C and SQL*Net. That's not very specific
because it varies so much between Oracle releases.
Except under MS Windows, ORACLE_HOME must point to the Oracle Home
used to create DBD::Oracle. Even under MS Windows, it doesn't hurt.
Make sure Oracle is working and you can use Oracle commands
like sqlplus to talk to the database *from the machine* you
want to build DBD::Oracle on. (This often involves setting
environment variables like PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, TWO_TASK etc.)
Basically, you need the full set of client libraries installed to build,
test, and install DBD::Oracle. You can normally download these for free
from Oracle.
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
dd
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David Dooling
