I am building DBD::Oracle 1.09 against Oracle 8.17 client libs, DBI 1.20, perl 5.005_03 on RH linux 6.1 and I get the following error when I run 'make': cc -c /OraHome1/rdbms/demo /OraHome1/rdbms/public /OraHome1/plsql/public /OraHome1/network/public -I/OraHome1/rdbms/demo -I/OraHome1/rdbms/demo -I/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux/auto/DBI -Dbool=char -DHAS_BOOL -I/usr/local/include -O2 -DVERSION=\"1.09\" -DXS_VERSION=\"1.09\" -fpic -I/usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/i386-linux/CORE Oracle.c cc: /OraHome1/plsql/public: No such file or directory cc: /OraHome1/network/public: No such file or directory In file included from dbdimp.h:52, from Oracle.h:20, from Oracle.xs:1: /OraHome1/rdbms/demo/oci.h:1668: ociextp.h: No such file or directory In file included from /OraHome1/rdbms/demo/oci.h:1673, from dbdimp.h:52, from Oracle.h:20, from Oracle.xs:1: /OraHome1/rdbms/demo/ociap.h:168: nzt.h: No such file or directory In file included from dbdimp.h:52, from Oracle.h:20, from Oracle.xs:1: /OraHome1/rdbms/demo/oci.h:1684: ociextp.h: No such file or directory make: *** [Oracle.o] Error 1 ORACLE_HOME = /OraHome1 I can build DBD::Oracle 1.08 with no problems. Let me know if any other information would be helpful. --eric