This article was essential when I tried to install Oracle on my machine:
"DBD::Oracle on OS X Success!"
http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg14864.html
--Michael
At 1:04 AM -0600 1/19/03, Alan Sill wrote:
Hi,
Tried similar things, with similar results. I followed all of the
instructions in
http://developer.apple.com/internet/macosx/perl.html
and finally got things to the point that perl -v would return 5.8.0
and all seemed well.
Ran the CPAN shell and updated itself (CPAN) successfully, and then
went on to some other things (DBI, DBD-Oracle, etc.).
Everything seems to install OK, but if I try (after setting my
ORACLE_HOME correctly to point to the 9.2.0.1 Developer Release of
Oracle too do the DBD::ORacle installation, I get errors at the make
test stage like the following:
dyld: perl Undefined symbols:
_OCIAttrGet
_OCIAttrSet
_OCIBindByName
_OCIBindDynamic
_OCIBreak
_OCIDefineByPos
_OCIDescribeAny
_OCIDescriptorAlloc
_OCIDescriptorFree
_OCIEnvInit
_OCIErrorGet
_OCIHandleAlloc
_OCIHandleFree
_OCIInitialize
_OCILobGetLength
_OCILobRead
_OCILobTrim
_OCILobWrite
_OCIParamGet
_OCIServerAttach
_OCIServerDetach
_OCISessionBegin
_OCISessionEnd
_OCIStmtExecute
_OCIStmtFetch
_OCIStmtPrepare
_OCITransCommit
_OCITransRollback
Trace/BPT trap
Anyone have any idea as to what is going on? All tests in the make
test stage of DBD::Oracle fail, although the previous make command
seemed to go OK.
David Wood wrote:
On Monday, January 13, 2003, at 04:42 PM, Morbus Iff wrote:
> khsmith% sudo perl -MCPAN -eshell
dyld: perl Undefined symbols:
_Perl_sv_2pv
_perl_get_sv
Trace/BPT trap
As per the article, under the "Preparation" portion:
If, after the installation, you get warnings about missing symbols, you
probably have an old version of Perl (or parts of one) in /Library/Perl.
These undefined symbols existed in pre-5.8.0 versions. For more
information on this issue, check out perldelta.
with a link to:
http://dev.perl.org/perl5/news/2002/07/18/580ann/
perldelta.html#mac%20os%20x%20dyld%20undefined%20symbols
As a matter of fact, I'm having similar problems, with significant
differences. Lemme get some obligatories out of the way here...
500 MHz PowerBook G4, 20Gb HD total (about 2.3Gb free), 512Mb
memory, running OS 10.2.3, and with a hand-compiled Perl 5.8.0 and
Apple's X11 beta, blah blah blah...
I have a very similar problem with Perl doing untoward crashy
things because of undefined symbols. However, I can run the CPAN
just fine. I'm having my problems with, among other things, GIMP,
which has some Perl calls in it which crash *consistently*.
I tried deleting the libperl.dyld, I tried renaming it, I tried
deleting every bundle in /System/Library/Perl/*.
As a last resort, I tried "sudo mv /System/Library/Perl
/System/Library/Perl-Old" and redid the "sudo make install" to
create a *new* Perl directory. Same problem all over again. Bleh.
Could the problem have anything to do with the dyld search paths,
which the make process griped about for no fathomable reason?
--David http://skipjack.bluecrab.org/~dwood
"After all, we can't have too many meta-stable personality constructs
gallivanting around the universe in Pfhor attack ships, can we?"
--Durandal, Marathon 2
