Re: Problems building DBD-Sybase-1.05

On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 22:03, Andy Cravens wrote:
> I'm having trouble building DBD-Sybase-1.05 on Solaris 7 with perl
> 5.005_03 and DBI-1.28
> 
> $ make
> gcc -B/usr/ccs/bin/ -c -I/opt/common/sybase/include
> -I/opt/gnu/perl5.005_03/lib/site_perl/5.005/sun4-solaris-thread/auto/DBI
> -D_REENTRANT -I/opt/local/include -I/opt/gnu/include -O3 -funroll-loops
> -fstrength-reduce     -DVERSION=\"1.05\"  -DXS_VERSION=\"1.05\" -fPIC
> -I/opt/gnu/perl5.005_03/lib/5.00503/sun4-solaris-thread/CORE  dbdimp.c
> dbdimp.c: In function `st_next_result':
> dbdimp.c:3045: parameter `thr' is initialized
> dbdimp.c:3045: declaration for parameter `thr' but no such parameter
> gcc: file path prefix `/usr/ccs/bin/' never used
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `dbdimp.o'

Try to add a
dTHR
declaration macro to the st_next_result() function.

I note that you are using the threaded version of 5.005... that's really
quite risky - I seem to remember that this was pretty unstable!

> 
> I have three questions:
> 
> 1) Does DBD-Sybase require a newer perl?  The README doesn't have any
> info on this.

I haven't tested this with older versions of perl - I don't think
there's anything obvious that I've done that will break, though.

> 2) Because we are using an old version of perl, I'm forced to stick with
> DBI-1.28 or older.  Will DBD-Sybase work with DBI-1.28?

It should, though I haven't tested this either.

> 
> 3) Is there a search option for searching the mail archives for this
> list?  I couldn't find one on the peppler web site.

http://www.peppler.org/archive/

The search box is at the bottom.

Michael
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