On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Vinod Menon wrote: ... > Our application was using DBI.pm version 10.25 against Oracle 7.3. > Lately the oracle database has been upgraded to 8i (8.1.6.1) and after > that our Perl code is not able to connect to Oracle database. The code > just dumps core. > Do I need to download a newer version of DBI. The perl version is used > is: > 5.005_03 built for PA-RISC1.1 > > Also other library files version are: > Oraperl.pm,v 1.39 > Oracle.pm,v 1.77 > > Pl advise what I need to do so that the perl code will work with Oracle > 8i (8.1.6.1.0). Would appreciate any help to solve this issue.
I think you have to rebuild Oracle.pm to link against the 8i libclntsh.so. Or, keep your Oracle8 OCI library somewhere and use LD_PRELOAD or similar so that Oracle.pm links to it instead of the updated client library. --- Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mosaic Communications, Inc.
