Re: Unable to make DBD::Oracle 1.44

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Martin J. Evans
<[email protected]> wrote:

> You are out of the problem area I've had to deal with.

Well, perhaps my pain will be someone else's gain. (Or at least a
warning not to do it like we're doing it now.)

> If you use Instant
> Client installed from Oracle it installs everything into one directory. It
> seems your in a position where instant client is distributed around multiple
> dirs.
>
> I've no idea why you got:
>
>
> /usr/lib64/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/CORE/reentr.h:612: error:
> field ‘_crypt_struct’ has incomplete type
>
> but I am suspicious there might be modules built with different compilers.
> Check where the Perl module DBI came from and rebuild it if necessary.
> However, I may be way out and don't have time to dig deeper right now.

That's quite likely to be the case, as we're using Red Hat's DBI and
CPAN's DBD::Oracle. I'll try that--thanks!