I have a failure building DBD::Sybase 1.09 in the xblk stuff, which I really don't use, but maybe you want to investigte anyway.
I am building perl 5.10.0 on Solaris, threaded (yes, threaded, please don't try to talk me out of it.). DBI is 1.607. Sybase server is Adaptive Server Enterprise/12.5.3/EBF 12869 ESD#4/P/Sun_svr4/OS 5.8/ase1253/1923/64-bit/FBO/Thu Sep 8 16:05:41 2005 Sybase client libs are 12.0. Yeah, I know. I have no control over that. The failure is here. perl -V is below. t/xblk..........1..62 ok 1 - use DBI; ok 2 - use DBD::Sybase; ok 3 - Connect ok 4 - Create table DBD::Sybase::db prepare warning: OpenClient message: LAYER = (0) ORIGIN = (0) SEVERITY = (0) NUMBER = (0) Server SYDAST01, database Message String: blk_init(): blk layer: internal BLK-Library error: Failed when CT_Lib routine ct_fetch(BLK_IN_GET_FMT) called. ok 5 - Prepare \#1 ok 6 - Send row 1 - test 1 cslib_cb: 2 4 1 36 cs_convert: cslib user api layer: common library error: The result is truncated because the conversion/operation resulted in overflow. cslib_cb: User Message: cs_convert failed: column 4: (_convert(123.456, 16)) DBD::Sybase::st execute failed: cs_convert: cslib user api layer: common library error: The result is truncated because the conversion/operation resulted in overflow. at t/xblk.t line 97. ok 7 - Send row 2 - test 1 ok 8 - Send row 3 - test 1 ok 9 - Commit test 1 ok 10 - Rows test 1 DBD::Sybase::db begin_work failed: Already in a transaction at t/xblk.t line 116. DBD::Sybase::db prepare warning: OpenClient message: LAYER = (0) ORIGIN = (0) SEVERITY = (0) NUMBER = (0) Server SYDAST01, database Message String: blk_init(): blk layer: internal BLK-Library error: Failed when CT_Lib routine ct_fetch(BLK_IN_GET_FMT) called. ok 11 - prepare \#2 cslib_cb: 2 4 1 20 cs_convert: cslib user api layer: common library error: The conversion/operation resulted in overflow. cslib_cb: User Message: cs_convert failed: column 5: (_convert(feb 29 2001 11:00, 12)) DBD::Sybase::st execute failed: cs_convert: cslib user api layer: common library error: The conversion/operation resulted in overflow. at t/xblk.t line 133. ok 12 - Execute row 1, test 2 cslib_cb: 2 4 1 20 cs_convert: cslib user api layer: common library error: The conversion/operation resulted in overflow. cslib_cb: User Message: cs_convert failed: column 3: (_convert(123456789123456, 8)) DBD::Sybase::st execute failed: cs_convert: cslib user api layer: common library error: The conversion/operation resulted in overflow. at t/xblk.t line 133. ok 13 - Execute row 2, test 2 cslib_cb: 2 4 1 36 cs_convert: cslib user api layer: common library error: The result is truncated because the conversion/operation resulted in overflow. cslib_cb: User Message: cs_convert failed: column 4: (_convert(123456.78, 16)) DBD::Sybase::st execute warning: cs_convert: cslib user api layer: common library error: The result is truncated because the conversion/operation resulted in overflow.OpenClient message: LAYER = (0) ORIGIN = (0) SEVERITY = (0) NUMBER = (0) Server SYDAST01, database Message String: blk_rowxfer(): blk layer: internal BLK-Library error: Failed in conversion routine - condition overflow. col = 4 row = 1. ok 14 - Execute row 3, test 2 cslib_cb: 2 4 1 20 cs_convert: cslib user api layer: common library error: The conversion/operation resulted in overflow. cslib_cb: User Message: cs_convert failed: column 8: (_convert(34343434343434343434.23, 15)) DBD::Sybase::st execute failed: cs_convert: cslib user api layer: common library error: The conversion/operation resulted in overflow. at t/xblk.t line 133. ok 15 - Execute row 4, test 2 ok 16 - Commit test 2 ok 17 - Rows, test 2 DBD::Sybase::db begin_work failed: Already in a transaction at t/xblk.t line 150. dubious Test returned status 0 (wstat 139, 0x8b) DIED. FAILED tests 18-62 Failed 45/62 tests, 27.42% okay t/xblob.........1..11 [1841] $ perl -V Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 10 subversion 0) configuration: Platform: osname=solaris, osvers=2.8, archname=sun4-solaris-thread-multi uname='sunos nycux-25k105 5.8 generic_117350-45 sun4u sparc sunw,sun-fire-15000 ' config_args='-de -Dusethreads -Dcc=cc -Dprefix=/home/persicom/perl.v5.10.0 -Dhtml1dir=/home/persicom/perl.v5.10.0/html/html1 -Dhtml3dir=/home/persicom/perl.v5.10.0/html/html3 -Dinstallusrbinperl=undef -dcf_email=matthew.pers...@lazard.com -dperladmin=matthew.pers...@lazard.com' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define useithreads=define, usemultiplicity=define useperlio=define, d_sfio=undef, uselargefiles=define, usesocks=undef use64bitint=undef, use64bitall=undef, uselongdouble=undef usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef Compiler: cc='cc', ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64', optimize='-O', cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -I/usr/local/include' ccversion='Sun C 5.8 2005/10/13', gccversion='', gccosandvers='' intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=4321 d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16 ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8 alignbytes=8, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/lib -L/usr/ccs/lib -L/opt/SUNWspro_11/prod/lib/v8plus -L/opt/SUNWspro_11/prod/lib -L/lib -L/usr/local/lib ' libpth=/usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib /opt/SUNWspro_11/prod/lib/v8plus /opt/SUNWspro_11/prod/lib /lib /usr/local/lib libs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lpthread -lc perllibs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lpthread -lc libc=/lib/libc.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a gnulibc_version='' Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' ' cccdlflags='-KPIC', lddlflags='-G -L/usr/lib -L/usr/ccs/lib -L/opt/SUNWspro_11/prod/lib/v8plus -L/opt/SUNWspro_11/prod/lib -L/lib -L/usr/local/lib' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT PERL_MALLOC_WRAP USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES USE_PERLIO USE_REENTRANT_API Built under solaris Compiled at Dec 28 2008 00:07:21 %ENV: PERL5LIB="/sa/common/lib/5.10.0" @INC: /sa/common/lib/5.10.0/sun4-solaris-thread-multi /sa/common/lib/5.10.0 /home/persicom/perl.v5.10.0/lib/5.10.0/sun4-solaris-thread-multi /home/persicom/perl.v5.10.0/lib/5.10.0 /home/persicom/perl.v5.10.0/lib/site_perl/5.10.0/sun4-solaris-thread-multi /home/persicom/perl.v5.10.0/lib/site_perl/5.10.0 . -- Matthew O. 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