Re: DBD::Oracle: Object support on sparc platforms

Yeah that has been around for a long time

I will put that into trunk so it will get into 1.28 which should be out next
week sometime.

Thanks allot Charles

Cheers
John

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Charles Jardine <[email protected]> wrote:

> Attached is a patch against DBD::Oracle version 1.27 which corrects
> some type mismatches which prevent the support for objects working
> on big-endian platforms such as Sun-sparc.
>
> There was a thread on this topic in this mail list last April.
> See http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg32902.html
>
> The original poster reported that tests in t/58object.t in
> version 1.24a did not work on his sparc platform. I posted a patch.
> the OP tested it, and found that my patch allowed him to get further,
> but later tests still failed. I posted a second patch and asked the OP
> to test it. I never got a reply.
>
> The first patch got into DBD::Oracle-1.27, but the second patch,
> being untested, did not.
>
> I have now managed to borrow some sparc hardware. I have re-worked
> the second patch for 1.27, and tested it. With the patch applied,
> DBD::Oracle passes all its tests on a 64-bit sparc running
> Solaris 10. I can now run some of my production scripts, which
> use objects, on the sparc.
>
> I recommend that this patch be incorporated into version 1.28.
>
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