Hi, I have HP-UX 11.11(64bit PA-RISC) and Perl 5.8.9.(32bit & 64bit) The Perl I installed from depot file from www.develooper.com. I am using gcc 3.4.3 depot file from ftp.thewrittenword.com. I am new to Perl. I want to install DBD::Oracle 1.24 (from CPAN) so that I can connect to remote database Oracle 10g. I am using Oracle Instantclient 10.2 (32bit) from Oracle download.
DBI is included in the perl 5.8.9. There is no issue on DBD compilation and make, the problem I have is when I run make test. The error is: # make test PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t t/01base................# Test loading DBI, DBD::Oracle and version t/01base................ok t/10general.............DBI connect('','scott/tiger@(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=zmy12s ora02)(PORT=1521))(CONNECT_DATA=(SID=CGISSRND)))',...) failed: ERROR OCIEnvNlsCreate. Check ORACLE_HOME (Linux) env var or PATH (Windows) and or NLS settings, permissions, etc. at t/10general.t line 35 Bailout called. Further testing stopped: Unable to connect to Oracle (ERROR OCIEnvNlsCreate. Check ORACLE_HOME (Linux) env var or PATH (Windows) and or NLS settings, permissions, etc.) *** Error exit code 1 I can connect to Oracle using sqlplus manually. DBD make test failed to connect to Oracle. I have set ORACLE_HOME, LD_LIBRARY_PATH & SHLIB_PATH to my Oracle Instantclient folder at /opt/instantclient_10_2. I have changed t/10general.t under DBD setup folder to include the environment variables but still failed. The variables are : $ENV{ORACLE_HOME} = '/opt/instantclient_10_2'; $ENV{NLS_LANG} = '.WE8ISO8859P15'; #$ENV{NLS_LANG} = 'en_US.UTF8'; #$ENV{NLS_LANG} = 'AMERICAN_AMERICA.UTF8'; #$ENV{ORACLE_USERID} = 'scott/tiger'; $ENV{ORACLE_SID} = 'CGISSRND'; $ENV{LD_LIBRARY_PATH} = '/opt/instantclient_10_2'; $ENV{SHLIB_PATH} = '/opt/instantclient_10_2'; $ENV{LD_RUN_PATH} = '/opt/instantclient_10_2'; $ENV{TNS_ADMIN} = '/opt/instantclient_10_2/network/admin'; $ENV{LD_PRELOAD} = '/opt/java1.5/jre/lib/PA_RISC2.0/libjava.sl'; #$ENV{TWO_TASK} = 'zmy12sora02'; I manually set $dbh as listed below: my $dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:Oracle:', q{scott/tiger@(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTO COL=TCP)(HOST=zmy12sora02)(PORT=1521))(CONNECT_DATA=(SID=CGISSRND)))}, ""); I can ping my server's IP address. I tried different variable settings that I can find from other threads in Internet but failed. Please help. Thanks. regards, Yeow