Never mind. I figured out a sequence of operations for trying a newer DBI and DBD without endagering our running scripts.
DBI 1.20 and DBD::Oracle 1.12 make, test, install and run just fine with our installed Oracle 9.0.1. Matt Brin >Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 09:09:49 -0500 >From: Matt Brin <matt> > >I found that DBD::Oracle 1.08 made easily with Oracle 9i but that >DBD::Oracle 1.09 did not. > >I have not tried DBD::Oracle 1.12 since it requires a higher version >of DBI than we have installed at the moment. > >Since I only know how to check out DBD::Oracle 1.12 by fully >installing a later version of DBI, I am reluctant to do so since we >have running scripts that we rely on. > >1. Does anyone know if DBD::Oracle 1.12 makes under 9i? > >2. Does anyone know how to make a later version of DBI, not install > it and use it to check a make of DBD::Oracle 1.12? > >If I try to make DBD::Oracle 1.12 with a later non-installed >version of DBI, then I get a complaint that the version of DBI that >I am trying to use does not reconcile with the version that >dynaloader seems to have registered. > >Thanks for any help. > >Matt Brin >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >