I guess I could add an option to available_drivers() to have it hide
drivers that are 'installed' but fail to load.
Tim.
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 08:56:00AM -0500, Spohn, Albert F. wrote:
> My initial install of DBI 1.15 bundle went without an apparent hitch. I
> then attempted to run the following code from the O'Reilly Perl DBI book to
> see what drivers were installed (expecting to see either 'none' or maybe one
> that came with the DBI 1.15 bundle). My knee-jerk reaction was to try to
> install a driver, then try again - so I tried the Sybase 0.91 DBD, but it
> wouldn't install cleanly... so I figured I better address the initial issue
> first. At any rate, here's the code:
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> use DBI;
>
> my @drivers = DBI->available_drivers();
>
> die "No drivers found!\n" unless @drivers;
>
> foreach my $driver (@drivers ) {
> print "Driver: $driver\n";
> my @dataSources = DBI->data_sources ($driver);
> foreach my $dataSource ( @dataSources ) {
> print "\tData Source is $dataSource\n";
> }
> print "\n";
> }
> exit;
>
> Here's the error I'm getting:
>
> Driver: ADO
> install_driver(ADO) failed: Can't locate Win32/OLE/Variant.pm in @INC (@INC
> contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/i386-linux /usr/lib/pe.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux/DBD/ADO.pm line 562.
> Perhaps a module that DBD::ADO requires hasn't been fully installed
> at ./dbi_test line 10
>
> Here's my perl -V info:
>
> Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 0) configuration:
> Platform:
> osname=linux, osvers=2.2.14-5.0, archname=i686-linux
> uname='linux jesse 2.2.14-5.0 #1 tue mar 7 21:07:39 est 2000 i686
> unknown '
> config_args=''
> hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
> usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef
> usemultiplicity=undef
> useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define
> use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef usesocks=undef
> Compiler:
> cc='cc', optimize='-O2', gccversion=egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux
> (egcs-1.1.2 release)
> cppflags='-fno-strict-aliasing'
> ccflags ='-fno-strict-aliasing -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
> -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64'
> stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false
> intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
> d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
> ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t',
> lseeksize=8
> alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
> Linker and Libraries:
> ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
> libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
> libs=-lnsl -lndbm -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lc -lposix -lcrypt
> libc=/lib/libc-2.1.3.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
> Dynamic Linking:
> dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic'
> cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'
>
>
> Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
> Compile-time options: USE_LARGE_FILES
> Built under linux
> Compiled at Mar 31 2001 23:48:51
> @INC:
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i686-linux
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i686-linux
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl
> .
>
> Many thanks to whomever was willing to wade through this junk! Any help
> would be appreciated, of course.
>
> - Al
>
> Al Spohn
> Publishing and Media Technology Services
> Mayo Clinic 507-284-1666
