DBD-Oracle on AIX

I've built DBD-Oracle-1.24 along with Perl 5.12.0 and DBI-1.611 for IBM 
AIX 6.1 TL05 (oslevel = 6100-05-01), with Oracle 10.2.0.4, using IBM XL 
C v11.1 + the latest PTF.

to build DBD-Oracle, i had to hack the makefile slightly to remove a 
bogus -q32 from the LD commands, this per the README.aix.txt notes, 
otherwise my build is pretty much bog stock.   Since I used cc_r to 
compile perl (per the Perl readmes for AIX) I also used this variant of 
the compiler for DBD-Oracle...

Its failing just one test t/58object.t ...   make test output is 
below...   I don't know how to resolve this.  The description of 
ORA-24334 is darn cryptic.



$ make test
        PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /opt/fis/perl5/bin/perl 
"-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 
'blib/arch')" t/*.t
t/01base.t .............. # Test loading DBI, DBD::Oracle and version
t/01base.t .............. ok  
t/10general.t ........... ok    
t/12impdata.t ........... ok  
t/14threads.t ........... ok    
t/15nls.t ............... ok  
t/20select.t ............ ok    
t/21nchar.t ............. ok    
t/22nchar_al32utf8.t .... ok   
t/22nchar_utf8.t ........ ok    
t/23wide_db.t ........... ok   
t/23wide_db_8bit.t ...... ok   
t/23wide_db_al32utf8.t .. ok    
t/24implicit_utf8.t ..... ok    
t/25plsql.t ............. ok    
t/26exe_array.t ......... ok    
t/28array_bind.t ........ ok    
t/30long.t .............. ok      
t/31lob.t ............... ok    
t/31lob_extended.t ...... ok    
t/32xmltype.t ........... ok  
t/34pres_lobs.t ......... ok    
t/40ph_type.t ........... 1/19  Placeholder behaviour for ora_type=1 
VARCHAR2 (the default) varies with Oracle version.
 Oracle 7 didn't strip trailing spaces, Oracle 8 did, until 9.2.x
 Your system doesn't. If that seems odd, let us know.
t/40ph_type.t ........... ok    
t/50cursor.t ............ ok        
t/51scroll.t ............ ok    
t/55nested.t ............ ok    
t/56embbeded.t .......... ok  
t/58object.t ............ 1/51 DBD::Oracle::db prepare failed: 
ORA-24334: no descriptor for this position (DBD ERROR: OCIParamGet) [for 
Statement "select * from dbd_test__obj_table order by id"] at 
t/58object.t line 116.
t/58object.t ............ Dubious, test returned 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00)
Failed 46/51 subtests
t/60reauth.t ............ skipped: ORACLE_USERID_2 not defined.
t/70meta.t .............. ok    
t/80ora_charset.t ....... ok    

Test Summary Report
-------------------
t/58object.t          (Wstat: 65280 Tests: 5 Failed: 0)
  Non-zero exit status: 255
  Parse errors: Bad plan.  You planned 51 tests but ran 5.
Files=30, Tests=2227, 16 wallclock secs ( 0.58 usr  0.06 sys +  7.31 
cusr  0.99 csys =  8.94 CPU)
Result: FAIL
Failed 1/30 test programs. 0/2227 subtests failed.
make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 255.


Stop.


and, my perl looks like...

$ perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 12 subversion 0) configuration:
  
  Platform:
    osname=aix, osvers=6.1.0.0, archname=aix-thread-multi
    uname='aix my-power520 1 6 00c5e4454c00 '
    config_args='-d -Dcc=cc_r -Duseshrplib -Dusethreads 
-Dprefix=/opt/fis/perl5'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    useithreads=define, usemultiplicity=define
    useperlio=define, d_sfio=undef, uselargefiles=define, usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=undef, use64bitall=undef, uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc_r -q32', ccflags ='-D_ALL_SOURCE -D_ANSI_C_SOURCE 
-D_POSIX_SOURCE -qmaxmem=-1 -qnoansialias -DUSE_NATIVE_DLOPEN 
-DNEED_PTHREAD_INIT -q32 -D_LARGE_FILES -qlonglong',
    optimize='-O',
    cppflags='-D_ALL_SOURCE -D_ANSI_C_SOURCE -D_POSIX_SOURCE -qmaxmem=-1 
-qnoansialias -DUSE_NATIVE_DLOPEN -DNEED_PTHREAD_INIT'
    ccversion='11.1.0.1', gccversion='', gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=4321
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=8
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', 
lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=8, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='ld', ldflags =' -brtl -bdynamic -b32 -bmaxdata:0x80000000'
    libpth=/lib /usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib
    libs=-lbind -lnsl -ldbm -ldb -ldl -lld -lm -lcrypt -lpthreads -lc
    perllibs=-lbind -lnsl -ldl -lld -lm -lcrypt -lpthreads -lc
    libc=/lib/libc.a, so=a, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.a
    gnulibc_version=''
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_aix.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='  
-bE:/opt/fis/perl5/lib/5.12.0/aix-thread-multi/CORE/perl.exp'
    cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags='-bhalt:4 -G -bI:$(PERL_INC)/perl.exp 
-bE:$(BASEEXT).exp -bnoentry -lpthreads -lc -lm'


Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
  Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV
                        PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT PERL_MALLOC_WRAP USE_ITHREADS
                        USE_LARGE_FILES USE_PERLIO USE_PERL_ATOF
                        USE_REENTRANT_API
  Built under aix
  Compiled at May 12 2010 18:06:22
  @INC:
    /opt/fis/perl5/lib/site_perl/5.12.0/aix-thread-multi
    /opt/fis/perl5/lib/site_perl/5.12.0
    /opt/fis/perl5/lib/5.12.0/aix-thread-multi
    /opt/fis/perl5/lib/5.12.0
    .