Re: ANNOUNCE DBD Oracle 1.27 Release Candidate 1

On 11/5/2010 5:22 AM, Martin J. Evans wrote:
> On 04/11/10 15:37, John Scoles wrote:
>> You can find Release Candidate 1 for DBD::Oracle 1.27 here
>>
>> http://svn.perl.org/modules/dbd-oracle/branches/polute/DBD_ORACLE_1_27_RC_1.tar.zip
>>
>> This release is limited to cleaning up Perl globals within the C and XS code.
>>
>> Short version
>>
>> PERL_POLLUTE is being dropped from perl 5.13.3 so drivers that have been around for a while (like DBD::Oracle)  may break!!
>>
>> Check out this thread
>>
>> http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.dbi.dev/2010/08/msg6217.html
>>
>> for the long version
>>
>> I am announcing this on dbi-users as well to expand the group of people who may be using 5.13.3.
>>
>> Cheers
>> John Scoles
>>
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> This is perl 5, version 13, subversion 6 (v5.13.6) built for i686-linux
> Ubuntu 10.10
> DEFINE _SQLPLUS_RELEASE = "1101000600" (CHAR)
> Oracle version 11.1.0.6 (11.1)
> Using DBI 1.615
>
> One compiler warning:
> oci8.c:3898: warning: cast from function call of type ‘size_t’ to non-matching type ‘void *’
Ok that will be for 1.28
> the usual 2 test failures:
>
> t/26exe_array.t       (Wstat: 512 Tests: 17 Failed: 2)
>    Failed tests:  11, 14

I think I have narrowed this one down some place else I will have to 
look at the email on it.

Martin are you testing on a 64bit box??

cheers
John Scoles
> Martin