Yeah that has been around for a long time I will put that into trunk so it will get into 1.28 which should be out next week sometime.
Thanks allot Charles Cheers John On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Charles Jardine <c...@cam.ac.uk> wrote: > Attached is a patch against DBD::Oracle version 1.27 which corrects > some type mismatches which prevent the support for objects working > on big-endian platforms such as Sun-sparc. > > There was a thread on this topic in this mail list last April. > See http://www.mail-archive.com/dbi-users@perl.org/msg32902.html > > The original poster reported that tests in t/58object.t in > version 1.24a did not work on his sparc platform. I posted a patch. > the OP tested it, and found that my patch allowed him to get further, > but later tests still failed. I posted a second patch and asked the OP > to test it. I never got a reply. > > The first patch got into DBD::Oracle-1.27, but the second patch, > being untested, did not. > > I have now managed to borrow some sparc hardware. I have re-worked > the second patch for 1.27, and tested it. With the patch applied, > DBD::Oracle passes all its tests on a 64-bit sparc running > Solaris 10. I can now run some of my production scripts, which > use objects, on the sparc. > > I recommend that this patch be incorporated into version 1.28. > > -- > Charles Jardine - Computing Service, University of Cambridge > c...@cam.ac.uk Tel: +44 1223 334506, Fax: +44 1223 334679 > -- The best compliment you could give Pythian for our service is a referral.
