On 2001-04-29 13:50:38 -0700, David Good wrote:
> Hmm. I wonder why our Oracle developer has several different Makefiles
> to build stuff based on the Oracle version?
Probably to build applications for different client releases. If you
have compiled and linked an app against 8.1.7 you cannot install it on a
PC which has only the Oracle 7 client installation on it (and probably
not even on one with 8.0.6). This is also the case with DBI. If you
build DBD::Oracle against 8.1.7, you must ensure that all the machines
you want to install it on have 8.1.7 installed[1]. It can connect to older
databases, though.
hp
[1] Someone once figured out the minimum of files which was needed to
run DBD::Oracle. You should be able to find it in the archives, but it
may change from release to release. The best is probably to do a full
client installation.
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