First off, I have to admit that while I've used perl for many years, I've not actually built it before this week. That said, it seems pretty simple. I am running on Solaris 8 with Oracle 9.2.
I built perl 5.8.0 from the source as suggested. I tested it out after all of it's tests with a few of my own scripts and it seemed to work just fine. My PATH contains this version of perl as the leader and I've verified that by issueing a perl -version and it returns 5.8.0 and I know that there is no other 5.8.0 installation on this machine. I installed the DBI-1.37 using the standard steps of perl Makefile.PL, make, make test, make install. This all appeared to be succesful based on the messages. Then, I downloaed DBD::Oracle-1.14 and attempted to install it the same way. My environment variables were set up as such: ORACLE_BASE=/local/oracle ORACLE_HOME=/local/oracle/product/9.2.0 ORACLE_SID=kehtest ORACLE_USERID=test/test PATH contains newest perl first, c libraries, ORACLE_HOME/bin and a lot more that are specific to our environment LD_LIBRARY_PATH contains ORACLE_HOME/lib as well as newest perl lib My database is online and my listener is running. I've verified I can login using sqlplus [EMAIL PROTECTED] and select against a few tables. Now, for the problem and question, when I execute perl Makefile.PL, I get this output and then it just seems to hang there forever: Using DBI 1.37 installed in /perl_loc/lib/site_perl/5.8.0/sun4-solaris/auto/DBI I tried using the -v option to get more output, but I never get anymore. I also followed somebody's suggestion of editing the Makefile.PL to change all references to oracle's lib directories to lib32. I also added ORACLE_HOME/lib32 to my LD_LIBRARY_PATH in the front, with no change. Has anybody seen this before or can somebody help me find a way to diagnose what's happening and where it's getting stuck? Thanks in advance. Kelly Harrelson Database Administration North Carolina State University 919.513.7229 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
