Re: make test hangs when re-installing DBI under 64-bit

On 8/27/2012 3:55 PM, Tim Bunce wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 01:42:20PM -0600, Harry Jamieson wrote:
>> On 8/27/2012 12:07 PM, Tim Bunce wrote:
>>> On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 08:41:45AM -0600, Harry Jamieson wrote:
>>>> Environment:
>>>> IBM AIX 5.3.
>>>> Perl 5.8.8 now linked to its 64-bit libraries.
>>>> 64-bit compiled test simple 0.98
>>>> 64-bit compiled MakeMaker 6.48.
>>>>
>>>> We didn't discover that IBM had shipped our AIX with Perl pointed to
>>>> the 32-bit version until after we had already installed DBI, and now
>>>> that we find that we must use DB2 instead of MySQL, we are forced to
>>>> try to re-install everything under 64-bit.  We have re-linked Perl
>>>> to 64-bit and we were successful at re-installing test simple and
>>>> makemaker under 64-bit.
>>> Did you use perlbrew (http://perlbrew.pl/) or use the defaults?
>>>
>>> Do you have to use a perl version that's over six years old?
>>>
>>> http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=DBI%201.622;maxver=1
>>> shows the last report for DBI from a cpan tester on AIX was for 1.609
>>>
>>> And http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=DBI%201.609;reports=1;os=aix
>>> shows only 1 pass and two fails, and those were for perl 5.10.1
>>> (the pass report looks like it's for a 64-bit system).
>> Environment:
>> IBM AIX 5.3.
>> Perl 5.8.8 now linked to its 32-bit libraries.
>> 32-bit compiled test simple 0.98
>> 32-bit compiled MakeMaker 6.48.
>>
>> Tim, thank you for your reply.   We have Perl 5.8.8 installed on the
>> machine right now, and it has been pointed back to 32-bit.  The
>> matrix that you gave me seems to show that I should update that to
>> at least 5.10.1 and then try to install 1.609 of DBI.
> You can't really draw firm conclusions from a single data point.
>
>> What version of DBD::DB2 would go along with that?
> I've no idea. The cpantesters matrix doesn't look helpful
> http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=DBD-DB2;maxver=1
>
>> The cpantest with the one pass and two fails was under AIX 5.1, and
>> we have AXI 5.3.  I'm hoping that that will make a positive
>> difference.
>>
>> I am new to perl and had never heard of perlbrew before.  I will
>> download it once the machine has finished TRYING to bring my DB2 up
>> to 8.2 so that I can load DBD::DB2.  Right now, I'm zcating the DB2
>> fix pack and getting lots and lots of garbage on my screen. :(  And
>> yes, I FTP'd it direct from IBM in binary.  I'll keep you up to date
>> on my progress.
> I can't help much beyond perl and DBI. (It's been many many years
> since I've even seen an AIX machine and I've never used DB2.)
>
> http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21297335
>
> Perhaps [email protected] can help.
>
> Good luck.
>
> Tim.
>
>
We're going to be able to just call IBM with problems like this soon, 
and I really didn't expect you to help me with a fixpak install. :)  
I've repeated the download process in case a 0 got flipped to a 1 or 
something, and will try it again here shortly.

Harry