[EMAIL PROTECTED] (William R Ward) writes: > Where I work we have a variety of versions of Oracle installed in > various possible values of $ORACLE_HOME. It is necessary to have the > environment variable $ORACLE_HOME match the version under which > DBD::Oracle was compiled, in order for it to work. For example, if > $ORACLE_HOME points to an 8.0.6 directory but DBD::Oracle was linked > with 8.1.6, we get a rude segmentation fault.
Let me clarify. We also have different versions of Perl, and each one's DBI is linked against a different version of the Oracle client libs. So it's hard to know for sure if you've got the right $ORACLE_HOME. --Bill. -- William R Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wards.net/~bill/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
