Re: Problems building Oracle::OCI 0.03 against Oracle 8.1.7 Linux

On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 05:40:57PM -0500, Stephen Clouse wrote:

> Next, it seems to forget to actually link to the Oracle libraries.  I had to
> coerce it to add the link stuff to the final Makefile.
> 
>  print "Building...\n";
> - -system("perl Makefile.PL && make && make test");
> +system("perl Makefile.PL LIBS=\"-L$ENV{ORACLE_HOME}/lib -lclntsh -lwtc8\" && \

Odd.
Was the DBD::Oracle built on that system?
What was the LIBS it was trying to use?
Can you find a more generic fix to the underlying problem?

> Finally, I had to patch getptrdef.h like so, which fixed the unresolved symbols 
> I was running into:
> 
> +#define ora_getptr_OCITransPtr ora_getptr_generic
> +#define ora_getptr_OCIUcbPtr ora_getptr_generic

Thanks. (At some point I hope the production of that file will be
automated.)

> With those changes it builds and tests perfectly.

Yeah! Great.

Do you have any time to play with it further?

Tim.