I got this working finally. I originally grabbed the wrong patch for DBD::Oracle. The one that I ended up using was at: http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg01291.html
Thanks for the pointers on where to find what I needed Tim, and thanks to Gerald Richter for putting the patch together. Scott > On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 06:16:08PM +0000, Scott Alexander wrote: > > I'm doing some testing with perl 5.8.0 and trying to use DBI. I > > know that the DBI and ithreads are listed as beta and not production > > ready, but the problem I think I'm having is that this fails to even > > make the clone. It never gets to using the dbi itself. > > > > The script is a Sendmail::Milter filter that I'm working on. It > > dies right after I make a connection to the sendmail engine. Thats > > why I'm pretty sure that this is caused by the cloning. > > > > The actual error is: > > Starting Sendmail::Milter 0.18 engine. > > Assertion tbl failed: file "sv.c", line 8798 > > That's Perl_ptr_table_fetch(). A stack trace from the core file > would be a big help. >