Re: DBD-Oracle on AIX

  On 05/18/10 9:41 AM, Charles Jardine wrote:
> On 17/05/10 23:05, John R Pierce wrote:
>> 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.
> There are problems with the support for objects on big endian
> platforms. http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg32902.html
> is a previous report for Sparc Solaris. The patches in the mail archive
> are mangled, much like your test output. I have attached two patches
> from that thread.
>
> I expect that sparc_patch will fix your immediate problem, allowing
> t/58object.t to get further, and report another test failure.
> sparc_patch2 may fix this second problem. I would like to know
> either way.
>
> I have no big endian hardware on which to test these patches.
>

Did this ever get tested and entered into the DBD-Oracle release ?

This issue has surfaced at work, so I can probably try testing your 
patches some time in the next week or so, possibly on both sparc and 
aix/power platforms, but if someone else has already done this and I 
missed it, I'd as soon not duplicate the effort