I wrote: > VMS Perl folks:
> I'm trying to upgrade from the (prebuilt but extended) 5.6.1 on my > Alpha running VMS 7.3-1 with lots of patches to the (prebuilt on the > freeware) 5.8.1. > When I try to install DBD_RDB, which installed happily on 5.6.1, I have > problems. [snippage of details] Short version: Never mind. Long version: I had DBD::Rdb15 and the most recent was 16; that change helped. Changing the makefile.pl so it defined LNK_LIBRARY as SQL$USER71.OLB instead of SQL$USER.OLB helped more. (I'll have to change that when Rdb 8 comes out, but that'll be a while.) Once I had those changes made I was able to install 16 into my 5.6.1 tree, and the program in question stopped causing an access violation and instead got a plausible error message, so I can work on getting that fixed. (Not sure why it thinks a query-only parameter needs to be bound inout, but at least I'm not blowing up Perl any more.) I don't know why test 21 failed on 5.8.1 and worked on 5.6.1, but I don't mess with floating point data much so I'm willing to go on with this. -- Alan -- =============================================================================== Alan Winston --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Disclaimer: I speak only for myself, not SLAC or SSRL Phone: 650/926-3056 Paper mail to: SSRL -- SLAC BIN 99, 2575 Sand Hill Rd, Menlo Park CA 94025 ===============================================================================
