On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 05:50:35PM +0000, Charles Jardine wrote: > Tim Bunce wrote: > >On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 12:34:54PM +0000, Charles Jardine wrote: > >>Tim Bunce wrote: > >>> http://www.data-plan.com/public/DBD-Oracle-1.17-RC3.tar.gz > >>> > >>>"We're getting there". This one fixes the two issues raised against RC2 > >>>(thanks Andy and Steffen). > >>> > >>>I'd be grateful for more, and wider, testing. Thanks! > >>Neither this release, nor RC2, work against the Instant Client > >>on Solaris. Makefile.PL fails with the output shown below. > >>The original release candidate's Makefile.PL succeeds with > >>the exact same environment settings (using the makefile > >>/jackdaw/instantclient/sdk/demo/demo.mk). > > > >I presume you had to use the -m option to specify the .../demo.mk > >since demo.mk isn't one of the .mk file names Makefile.PL search for. > > No. $ORACLE_HOME points to an Instant Client. demo.mk is the only > makefile it has got. This worked with the first release candidate. > The Makefile.pl -v ouput is below.
That shows it took a different path. I didn't use demo.mk but detected (correctly) that it was an Instant Client install and used a different method (direct link). > What seems to be happening with RC3 is that Makefile.PL is behaving > as if I had a full Oracle install rather than an Instant Client. Yeap. I'll take a closer look at the log and see if I can spot why. Thanks for the details. Tim.
