Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I'm trying to implement a system for unattended which takes system
> information out of an SQL database (in this case, an IRM database)
> and uses it for various configuration parameters for unattend.txt.
> Hence, I need the DBI modules in the linux boot disk so I can go and
> play "query me, baby!".

This sounds like a common desire.

> I've cheated a bit and copied various useful files off my Debian
> workstation (same version of perl, 5.8.3) but it doesn't work.  Not
> that I necessarily expected it to, although it would have been nice.
> The error message I get is "relocation error:
> /opt/perl/lib/5.8.3/auto/DBI/DBI.so: undefined symbol:
> Perl_Gthr_key_ptr".  The perl binary in unattended doesn't have this
> symbol, although the perl on my Debian box does.  Hence I'm working
> from the basis that it's a build-time config option I need to be
> fiddling with.

Yup; threading support.  Do a Google search or see (for example):

  http://www.codeweavers.com/site/support/docs/cxplugin/troubleshooting#GENTOO-PERL

Apparently most distributions compile with threading support enabled.

I will fix this in the next release.

> Even better would be a version of the Linux side of unattended with
> DBD already in it, but I know that might be pushing it a smidgen...

Of all the third-party modules we might consider shipping by default,
DBI is clearly #1 on the list.  I will look into adding it in the next
release as well.

How soon do you need this?

 - Pat


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