On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Christopher Solomon wrote: > > My setup: > > linux (2.4.10) > perl 5.6.1 (output of perl -V attached) > > Perl works fine (insofar as I've tested it with a few scripts), and I > originally tried to install DBI from CPAN: > > perl -MCPAN -e shell > shell%> install DBI > > but it didn't take; I can't remember the errors. > > Then I downloaded the source (DBI-1.20.tar.gz) and tried to compile it, > after of course reading the README's and looking at the documentation. > > 'perl Makefile.PL' and 'make' went ok, but 'make test' failed. > > I did a search on the error message: 'Cannot write to /tmp/dbiproxy.pid' > (the first of the errors which caught my eye) but couldn't find anything > helpful. >
After re-reading this, I having a sinking feeling it might be something as silly as not having write access to /tmp since I'm not installing DBI as root. Is there a way to specify a different 'tmp' directory? or do you think that's not really the problem? Chris
