Re: DBD-Oracle on AIX

  On 9/14/2010 12:41 AM, John R Pierce wrote:
>  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
>
>
To which issue are you referring
the hack to the make file or the problem with t/58object.t?

cheers John