You will need to determine the source of your Perl binary. The best way to determine this is to:
$ perl -V And look for which C compiler was used to build Perl. If your Perl is not from ActiveState, I believe you will not be able to use ppm at all. If you indeed, need to rebuild Perl, you should build Perl 5.8.8 and install the latest DBI and DBD::Oracle modules. Be sure to read the README* files prior to installation, so you understand exactly what is will be happening. -- Ron Reidy Lead DBA Array BioPharma, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: rajarathnam, devaraj [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 10:52 PM To: John Scoles Cc: [email protected] Subject: RE: OCI Initialize failed 1804r Hi John, I am using Oracle 10g client, so I infer that I need to compile DBD:Oracle with Oracle 10g client. But to compile DBD:Oracle with Oracle 10g client, do I need to start to compile Perl 5.6.1 again? If so can I use PPM to install Perl. Is PPM available for HP-UX. Please could you suggest me HP-UX Perl 5 mailing lists? Thanks and Regards, Devaraj -----Original Message----- From: John Scoles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 May 2006 7:22 PM To: rajarathnam, devaraj Subject: Re: OCI Initialize failed 1804r If you are still using the old Oracle 9i client no. If you have changed your Oracle client to 10g or instantclient then you will have to recompile your DBD::Oracle but there is no need to recompile DBI unless it is a very old version. If that is the case I would use PPM to get the latest version of DBI rather than compile it myself. ----- Original Message ----- From: "rajarathnam, devaraj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 9:31 AM Subject: OCI Initialize failed 1804r Hi, I have a perl 5.6.1 installation with DBI and DBD:Oracle with Oracle 9i When I try to run a script to make a connection with Oracle 10g using the above Perl executable, I get the error Unable to initialize OCI, OCI Initialize failed 1804. Do I need to compile Perl, DBI and DBD with Oracle 10g to solve this problem. Kindly let me know. Thanks and Regards, Devaraj This electronic message transmission is a PRIVATE communication which contains information which may be confidential or privileged. The information is intended to be for the use of the individual or entity named above. If you are not the intended recipient, please be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this information is prohibited. Please notify the sender of the delivery error by replying to this message, or notify us by telephone (877-633-2436, ext. 0), and then delete it from your system.
