Re: DBD::Oracle 1.72 fail

On Thu, 22 May 2014 07:49:15 -0700, Christopher Jones
<[email protected]> wrote:

> On 5/21/14, 11:03 PM, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
> > On Wed, 21 May 2014 17:28:53 -0700, Christopher Jones
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> On 05/19/2014 01:48 PM, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
> >>> On Thu, 17 Apr 2014 23:49:24 -0700, Christopher Jones
> >>> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> I appreciate the wealth of information.
> >>>> It really does help when we have to prioritize project and features.
> >>>
> >>> FEEDBACK!
> >>>
> >>> I have perl-5.18.2-ia64 running with 12c client in a 10g environment :)
> >>
> >> It sounds like you have a client using 12c libraries from a mixed environment directory!
> >> I'd have to ask "why?".  I couldn't recommend doing it.
> >
> > Neither would I, BUT …
> >
> > perl-5.14.2 and newer with OpenSSL-1.0.0 or newer and DBD::Oracle does
> > not work for quite a few of our applications when linking DBD::Oracle
> > to the 10g client that is available in the 10g database environment.
> 
> The problem is the interesting part. I'd like to know what "does not
> work".

Our SOAP clients. I am not able/allowed to reveal code on that.
I might be able to reproduce an error message, but as I recall the
message, it did not hint to *anything* useful at all

> > The client is not (yet) willing to move on to 11g or 12c, so the 10g is
> > there to stay.
> 
> It sounds like you've moved them, at least for Perl.

No, they are fully 10g, but now the 10g /lib has three extra .so's from
12c and those timezone files: their 10g installation doesn't care if
there are a few extra files in there. They are just used by DBD::Oracle

> Chris

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