Thanks Martin I have added it to the Trunk If you can test it that would be great
here is the file http://svn.perl.org/modules/dbd-oracle/trunk/Makefile.PL Cheers John Scoles > FYI, I've found another case of sqlplus not working with ORACLE_HOME > set. When running Makefile.PL with Instant Client 10.1 on Linux I get: > > Using Oracle in /home/wez/oracle/instantclient10_1/ > SP2-0642: SQL*Plus internal error state 2165, context 4294967295:0:0 > Unable to proceed > > The problem is reproducible outside of DBD::Oracle just with sqlplus. > The previous solution to unset ORACLE_HOME for the duration of running > sqlplus to get the client lib version does this: > > if ($sqlplus_release =~ /SP2-0750/) { > my $x = $ENV{ORACLE_HOME}; > delete $ENV{ORACLE_HOME}; > $sqlplus_release = `$sqlplus_exe -S /nolog \...@define.sql 2>&1`; > $ENV{ORACLE_HOME} = $x; > } > > If needs to check for SP2-0642 as well and that fixes it: > > if ($sqlplus_release =~ /(SP2-0750)|(SP2-0642)/) { > > Hope this helps anyone else hitting this problem. > > Martin > -- > Martin J. Evans > Easysoft Limited > http://www.easysoft.com >