Re: Problems building DBD on strawberry Perl

Martin Evans <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.modules.dbi.sybase.devel
Organization Easysoft Limited
Message-ID <[email protected]>
H.Merijn Brand wrote:
> On Wed, 21 May 2008 09:21:57 +0100, Martin Evans
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm hoping someone here may be able to help with an outstanding ticket I 
>> have for DBD::ODBC.
>>
>> http://rt.cpan.org/Dist/Display.html?Status=Active&Queue=DBD-ODBC
>> which started at http://rt.cpan.org//Ticket/Display.html?id=32789 (for 
>> strawberry perl)
>>
>> The problem is people using cpan -i on strawberry perl as cpan sets INC 
>> on the command line and this overrides any changes made to INC in the 
>> Makefile.PL. As a result the change all DBDs make to add the path for 
>> DBI's header files is lost and the compile fails. This has been reported 
>> to me via mail 4 times in the last fortnight :-(
>>
>> Anyone have any ideas if there is a way around this?
> 
> http://win32.perl.org/wiki/index.php?search=ODBC&go=Go
> http://win32.perl.org/wiki/index.php?title=Vanilla_Perl_Problem_Modules
> http://win32.perl.org/wiki/index.php?title=Install_DBD::Oracle_on_Strawberry_Perl
> 
> http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32811
> 

Unless I've missed something, there is nothing in the above except edit 
the makefile to add the DBI path. What I was really looking for is an 
automatic solution to the problem.

Martin
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Martin J. Evans
Easysoft Limited
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