Good morning all,
I need a sanity check here. I'm using PERL 5.005_03, DBI-1.14 and
DBD-Oracle.1.06 on a Solaris 8 box. I also have SQL*PLUS installed. I
had everything compiled and working fine from the command line. I wrote
a web interface to run a CGI script making DBD::Oracle calls, and that's
when I ran into the famous "Solaris patch" message. Reading through
the README.java file for answers, I opted to rebuild PERL with thread
support. (The LD_PRELOAD option doesn't work when accessing the scripts
from a browser, and recompiling Oracle is not going to be an option when
this goes production.)
I rebuilt PERL with -Dusethreads and it built and passed the tests just
fine. I rebuilt DBI and had no problems. I tried to rebuild
DBD::Oracle, and I'm getting the following messages:
Using DBI 1.14 installed in
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/sun4-solaris-thread/auto/DBI
Configuring DBD::Oracle ...
>>> Remember to actually *READ* the README file!
Especially if you have any problems.
Using Oracle in /export/home/oracle/OraHome1
Unable to locate an oracle.mk, proc.mk or
other suitable *.mk
file in your Oracle installation. (I looked
in
/export/home/oracle/OraHome1/rdbms/lib/oracle.mk
/export/home/oracle/OraHome1/rdbms/demo/oracle.mk
/export/home/oracle/OraHome1/rdbms/demo/demo_rdbms.mk
/export/home/oracle/OraHome1/otrace/demo/atmoci.mk
/export/home/oracle/OraHome1/precomp/demo/proc/proc.mk
/export/home/oracle/OraHome1/precomp/demo/proc/demo_proc.mk
/export/home/oracle/OraHome1/proc/lib/proc.mk
/export/home/oracle/OraHome1/proc16/lib/proc16.mk)
The oracle.mk (or demo_rdbms.mk) file is
part of the Oracle
RDBMS product. The proc.mk (or demo_proc.mk)
file is part of
the Oracle Pro*C product. You need to build
DBD::Oracle on a
system which has one of these Oracle
components installed.
(Other *.mk files such as the env_*.mk files
will not work.)
In the unlikely event that a suitable *.mk
file is installed
somewhere non-standard you can specify where
it is using the -m option:
perl Makefile.PL -m /path/to/your.mk
See README.clients for more information and
some alternatives.
at Makefile.PL line 651.
I've searched my system, and I can't find the oracle.mk or proc.mk
files. I did a full install of the Oracle client from the Oracle 8i CD,
and (as far as I can remember), I haven't deleted anything from the
$ORACLE_HOME directory. So they should've been there at some point, I'm
guessing. I searched the Oracle 8i CD, and if those .mk files are
there, they must be stuffed in a .jar file or something.
Am I nuts or has anyone else run across this? Why would I have been
able to build and install DBD::Oracle when PERL didn't use thread
support? Have I gone brain dead, or am I missing something here?
TIA for any advice, suggestions, etc.
Dave Tamillow
