> Perrin Harkins wrote: > >Rafael Caceres wrote: > >>I'm facing a dilemma here. We are testing an Oracle 9iAS installation > >>(Apache 1.3.19, mod_ssl 2.8.1, mod_perl 1.25 as DSO, Perl 5.005_03) on > >>Red Hat Linux 7.2, which itself came with Perl 5.6.0, and from your > >>comments, that's bad.. > > > >First of all, if it's working for you then don't worry about it. > > I have not started testing scripts that currently work on other boxes. I > will install the required modules for the 5.005_03 perl used by Oracle > 9iAS, and see what happens. > This road forces me to have the two perl versions coexisting, or, > to search > for all the perl modules installed for the 5.6 version by the rpm's on > initial installation, install them for the 5.005_03 version and > then remove > the 5.6 one permanently.
OK, for starters: Oracle includes their own version of perl/apache/mod_perl for the Web interface they are bundling with the new 9i servers. It's their own version, built by their own people, for their own usage, on their own product, in its own path, under the Oracle product installation tree. Let 'em have it. It's only a few megs of disk space, and if your 9i installation works, GREAT. Don't think of it as two versions co-existing. Think of it as Oracle's insurance to themselves that their system will have the exact parts it needs. Besides, except for a few configuration files, shouldn't everything under $ORACLE_HOME be considered hands-off anyway? Now, on to the real world: 10 minutes ago I just saw a post by a RedHat employee stating that there are new RPM's for Perl 5.6.1 and the latest mod_perl. Which means you can download and install them, and THEN begin installing other modules, like Apache::DBI, Apache::Session, etc etc according to your needs, into the "real" perl installation tree, where all of YOUR system's perl modules live. > Yes, there are at least two modules: mod_plsql and mod_oprocmgr for which > there is no source, so rebuilding seems to be out of the question Those modules are *only* for the Oracle administrative webservice, as I mentioned above. If you want to use Oracle from Perl/mod_perl, do it like everybody else: DBI and DBD::Oracle (for the record, I build them for 9i several months ago with 0 headaches). This *does* include the ability to execute PL/SQL. L8r, Rob #!/usr/bin/perl -w use Disclaimer qw/:standard/;
