Howdy: I'm running Perl 5.8.x on RHEL ver. 3 and I am trying to connect to Oracle 9i (both the database and the Application Server's repository).
With Perl 5.6.1, I used DBI and Oracle:DBD and things worked well, with Perl 5.8.x, the readme docs for the DBD module says that it is incompatible with that version of Perl. I thought I could use unixODBC on Linux to connect to the database(s), but I don't see any docs or examples (even from unixODBC.com) that could help. Can someone point me in the direction to either: a) configure a new version of Oracle DBD to work, or, b) examples of how to get Perl 5.8.x, unixODBC and odbc-oracle-1.3.1 to work on RedHat Linux, or, c) point me towards a how-to to re-install a second perl version on the same box. (I am trying this route, and get compile errors - I can send those if they are needed). Please and thanks! -X
