Well, I've gotten a very greatdeal further. The DB people pointed me at a test system that still had scott/tiger and opened up that account's permissions so it could create the necessary test tables.
It's down to one warning and one error now; the gist of it is these two lines (no doubt folded by my mailer): t/26exe_array...........DBD::Oracle::st execute_array warning: ORA-24381: error(s) in array DML (DBD SUCCESS_WITH_INFO: error possibly near <*> indicator at char 66 in 'INSERT INTO dbd_ora__drop_me ( row_1, row_2, row_3) VALUES (:p1,:<*>p2,:p3)') [for Statement "INSERT INTO dbd_ora__drop_me ( row_1, row_2, row_3) VALUES (?,?,?)" with ParamValues: :p3=undef, :p1=undef, :p2=undef] at t/26exe_array.t line 77. t/31lob.................DBD::Oracle::db selectrow_array failed: ORA-00942: table or view does not exist (DBD ERROR: error possibly near <*> indicator at char 103 in ' SELECT cache_lobs + nocache_lobs AS temp_lob_count FROM v$temporary_lobs templob, <*>v$session sess WHERE sess.sid = templob.sid AND sess.audsid = userenv('sessionid') ') [for Statement " SELECT cache_lobs + nocache_lobs AS temp_lob_count FROM v$temporary_lobs templob, v$session sess WHERE sess.sid = templob.sid AND sess.audsid = userenv('sessionid') "] at t/31lob.t line 58. # Failed test (t/31lob.t at line 166) # got: undef # expected: '0' # Looks like you failed 1 test of 9. dubious Test returned status 1 (wstat 256, 0x100) DIED. FAILED test 9 Failed 1/9 tests, 88.89% okay I think only the latter one is actually holding me up, because the summary at the end says only one test failed: t/70meta................Failed 1/20 test scripts, 95.00% okay. 1/934 subtests failed, 99.89% okay. ok Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail Failed List of Failed ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- t/31lob.t 1 256 9 1 11.11% 9 4 tests and 122 subtests skipped. make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 255 /usr/bin/make test -- NOT OK Running make install make test had returned bad status, won't install without force Any ideas gratefully received! Regards, K. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Karl Auer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) +61-2-64957160 (h) http://www.biplane.com.au/~kauer/ +61-428-957160 (mob)