Re: ProC on Linux machines

In <3BC9C454.56368C6A_at_richard-schneider.de> Uwe Schneider <uwe_at_richard-schneider.de> writes:

>Hi Stan,

>Stan Brown wrote:
>>
>> I'm trying to get Oracle setup on a couple of Linux machines. I've
>> installed 8.1.6 on one, and 99.0.1 on another (brther does that nstall take
>> forever, even on a 900MHZ PIII). I have working sample instances, and can
>> use SQLNet to access each other. So far so good.
>>
>> Next I would like to get the Perl Oracle DBD driver working on these
>> machines. In order to do this, I need to get ProC working.
>>
>> Unfortunately I cannot get either machine to compile the sample ProC files.
>>

>No. You don't need Pro*C in order to compile DBD::Oracle. This module is
>just a perl wrapper around OCI. Therefore you need a running C compiler,
>a clean Perl environment and a valid $ORACLE_HOME with the corresponging
>header files installed. That's all.

OH, cool. Now if I can just figure out how to get the CPAN module to understand it needs to use passive movde ftp.

>Uwe

>BTW: Maybe your keyboard is seriously broken?

Nah, just type too fast.

Thanks.

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