Building DBD-Oracld on AIX using gcc

Dear all,

I've got a little problem.

On a customer's AIX 4.2 system I (only having Solaris experience) try to compile DBD-Oracle-0.4.7 but it fails when linking Oracle.so because of undefined symbols. This is with Oracle 8.0.3.

what I did:

• build gcc 2.8.1 because the precompiled gcc installed on the system failed to compile perl
• build perl because the precompiled perl installed on the system was built with IBM cc (making it difficult to compile modules with gcc) - of course there is no license for IBM cc and when it finally arrives it will be too late.... - all tests are ok (perl5.004_04)
• build DataDumoer, libnet and DBI (all current versions) - all test Ok
• build DBD-Oracle this fails when linking Oracle.so with ~ 45 undefined symbols upon inserting some of the n??t?*.o files from $ORACLE_HOME/lib in LDLOADLIBS I get fewer undefined symbols - I don't know what I'm doing here...

There is some note that one has to use xlc_r. Can it be done with gcc?

Can anybody tell me what I'm doing wrong? Or outline the procedure to do it correctly? Or point me to precompiled packages that actually work?

Best Regards

Wolfram Schmidt

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