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

On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 04:28:11PM -0500, Stephen Clouse wrote:
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> On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 10:31:37AM +0100, Tim Bunce wrote:
> > Odd.
> > Was the DBD::Oracle built on that system?
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> Yep, it builds fine.
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> > What was the LIBS it was trying to use?
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> Something ludicrously long.  I think DBD::Oracle just tries linking to
> everything it finds in OH/lib.  It really only needs libclntsh and libwtc8 (at
> least that's what ldd claims).

Please send me your generated DBD::Oracle Makefile so I can get a feel for
what's happening there. Thanks.

> > Can you find a more generic fix to the underlying problem?
> 
> Yes, this just puts DBD::Oracle's LIBS value into the mix.

Ah, looks good.

> > Do you have any time to play with it further?
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> I can fiddle with it in the evenings.  I copied Oracle to my home machine to do
> some development.

Could you look into why the OCILobWrite doesn't seem to work?
I'm not sure if it's an Oracle::OCI problem or I'm just not making
the right kinds of OCI calls.

Tim.