Re: DBD-Oracle, perl 5.6.1, Solaris 7

Tomasz,

If you download the DBD-Oracle.zip archive from ActiveState.com and look at the file DBD-Oracle.ppd, you will see the package is intended for Win32 only. The same holds for DBD-Oracle8.zip.

Given this, you have 2 options for using this package:

1. Send AS an email and ask them to get a port to Solaris (SPARC or Intel architecture).
2. Build your own perl.

Of the two, I would say your best chance of getting this done in a timely manner is to build your own Perl.

--
Ron Reidy
Oracle DBA


"Tomecki" <ptwrona_at_gazeta.pl> wrote in message news:<badh4g$q6v$1_at_inews.gazeta.pl>...


> Hello,


> 

> I would like to install DBD-Oracle 1.14 on the Solaris 7 machine with perl

> 5.6.1, no Oracle.

> First I've tried with ppm but it doesn't work, ppm can only find following

> packages:

> 

> PPM interactive shell (2.1.5) - type 'help' for available commands.

> PPM> search Oracle

> Packages available from

> http://ppm.ActiveState.com/cgibin/PPM/ppmserver.pl?urn:/PPMServer:

> DBIx-OracleSequence [0.04] interface to Oracle sequences via DBI.

> DDL-Oracle          [1.11] a DDL generator for Oracle databases

> 

> Then I've download the package DBD-Oracle-1.14.tar. But I need the

> installation of DBD-Oracle on a machine, that doesn't have Oracle

> installation. I have following message (I've set the ORACLE_HOME to

> directory from real Oracle installation - other machine in our network):

> 

> # perl Makefile.PL

> Using DBI 1.37 installed in

> /usr/local/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/sun4-solaris-thread-multi/auto/DBI

> 

>  Configuring DBD::Oracle ...

> 

> >>>     Remember to actually *READ* the README file!

>         Especially if you have any problems.

> 

>   The ORACLE_HOME environment variable value (/ora/product/817) is not

> valid.

>   It must be set to hold the path to an Oracle installation directory

>   on this machine (or a compatible archtecture).

>   See the README.clients file for more information.

>   ABORTED!

> 

> What can I do to install DBD-Oracle?

> 

> Thanks a lot for any help

> Tomasz Wrona