> > We have the Oracle instant client 10.0.2.0 installed and working fine > > on our s390x (aka s390 64-bit, zLinux) host. Now we want to use > > DBD::Oracle there, but I can't find any precompiled packages > > anywhere, and when we try to build it we get either > > > > The ORACLE_HOME environment variable value > > (/opt/Oracle/instantclient_10_2) is not valid. > > > > which is untrue; the ORACLE_HOME is valid, as I've verified by using > > sqlplus from there. After faking $ORACLE_HOME/lib a bit, I get > > instead the dreaded > > > > Unable to locate an oracle.mk, proc.mk or other suitable *.mk file in > > your Oracle installation. > > Which DBD::Oracle are you attempting to build?
Well. Now that I look at it, we were using DBD-Oracle-1.16, which is probably ancient by now. I just downloaded the latest DBD-Oracle-1.26 and tried again, and it builds and installs just fine. Thanks for asking me that basic question. For the record... > So you've untarred the instantclient sqlplus, sdk and basic zip files? > > and they all unzip into a single place /opt/Oracle/instantclient_10_2? > > Did you check the permissions on the entire tree from /opt? Yes, yes, and yes. > Did you set and export the ORACLE_HOME environment variable or > LD_LIBRARY_PATH and if so what did you set it to? I would not set > ORACLE_HOME but I would set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to > /opt/Oracle/instantclient_10_2. Yes, we have ORACLE_HOME=/opt/Oracle/instantclient_10_2. I don't have LD_LIBRARY_PATH set, but instead we put /opt/Oracle/instantclient_10_2 into /etc/ld.so.conf and ran ldconfig. Thank you very much for your help. Andrew.
