Re: Building DBD-Sybase with a local DBI

On 7/7/05, David Barnwell <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have been trying to build DBD-Sybase-1.05_02 with DBI-1.48. I need to do
> this in a local directory /home/davidb/local for testing purposes.
> Unfortunately, I have found that the build of DBD-Sybase picks up the
> standard DBI-1.32 from /usr/lib, not my local version.

You have not added your local directory to the @INC list in perl. To
prove me right, execute the command

 perl -V 

and at the bottom of the output you will NOT see  /home/davidb/local
in the list of dirs.

There are a few ways to add your directory. I prefer the following:

PERL5LIB=/home/davidb/local/lib/5.6.1:/home/davidb/local/lib/site_perl:$PERL5LIB
export PERL5LIB 

Do that up front before you run anything. Put it in your profile for
now but do not forget to remove it when done testing.

Then do a perl -V and see the difference.

> 
> Here are the details. I built DBD-Sybase using:
> perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/home/davidb/local verbose
> and I have added:
>  DBI_INCLUDE=/home/davidb/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
> to CONFIG

I believe that there is no need to do this if you do the PERL5LIB assignment.
-- 
Matthew O. Persico