[Chicago-talk] Trouble compiling DBD::Oracle for Fedora core 8

[Jay Strauss]

First things first when working with DBD::Oracle.

I know you installed the instant client, but have you tried connecting
to Oracle with sqlplus?  You need to get that working first, just by
itself.

Then once you can successfully connect, do the stuff like setting your
PATH, and LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and in DBD::Oracle's case your
ORACLE_USERID.

I've done this many times (generally on some Debian family distro) and
am willing to help.

Jay

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 12:39 PM, chris long <cmlong at invisiblestreams.com> wrote:
> I followed your instructions. Make does seem to generate *successful build
> output*. However, when I try 'make test' or 'make install' I receive the
> same error output that I indicated in my first post, regarding
> "_crypt_struct' errors..
>
> I also tried a test script to :
>
>
> use DBD::Oracle;
>
> The terminal replies:
>
> Can't locate DBD/Oracle.pm in @INC
>
> so doest that indicate that DBD:Oracle is not installed?
>
> Thanks-Chris
>
>
>
>
> On Mar 1, 2008, at 11:22 AM, Whitney Jackson wrote:
> I tried building DBD::Oracle on a Fedora 8 box and it went pretty
> smoothly.  Here's what I did:
>
> - Installed these rpms:
>
> oracle-instantclient-basic-11.1.0.1-1
> oracle-instantclient-sqlplus-11.1.0.1-1
> oracle-instantclient-devel-11.1.0.1-1
> libaio-0.3.106-3.2
>
> - From the untarred DBD-Oracle-1.20 dir:
>
> $ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/oracle/11.1.0.1/client/lib # so
> sqlplus can work
> $ perl Makefile.PL -m /usr/share/oracle/11.1.0.1/client/demo.mk -h
> /usr/include/oracle/11.1.0.1/client
> $ make
> *successful build output*
>
> A few things to note:
>
> - My box has all updates applied and is running perl-5.8.8.
>
> - I'm no Oracle expert but it seems like build information can be
> included in the .mk file.
>  You may want to review the .mk file that is being used to ensure
> that any build information
>   is correct.
>
> - I didn't run any tests since I don't have an Oracle server here.  I
> just went as far as the
>  successful build.
>
> Whitney
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