>From lurking around this mail list over the years, I've seen numerous items relating to building DBD-Oracle against a specific version of the Oracle client software on *nix systems.
Example: if DBD-Oracle was built using version 9, then the Oracle client is upgraded to 10g; it is necessary to rebuild DBD-Oracle with the 10g client. I have used Perl on HP/UNIX, AIX, Linux and Windows. On the *nix systems, Perl came with the OS and I have had to install the DBI and DBD-Oracle modules using the standard make process. On windows, I used ActiveState Active Perl and PPM to install DBI and DBD-Oracle modules. In the windows environment I never have to worry about which version of the Oracle client is present and I can upgrade to a different client version of Oracle without having to reinstall the DBD-Oracle module. What trick allows PPM modules to work regardless of Oracle client versions? Ultimately, I'd like to know if there is a way to 'make' the modules on *nix systems so that they don't rely on a specific version? Thanks in advance, Paula
