DBD::Oracle install issue on CentOS 8 missing libnsl

[email protected] ("Bruce Johnson") Tue, 18 Feb 2020 16:58:26 +0000
Newsgroups perl.dbi.users
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Just a heads up for those of you on the close-to-the-bleeding-edge. libnsl is no longer included with the standard glibc libs with CentOS (and I'm guessing also in RHEL 8, and whatever the current Fedora build is) , and the DBD::Oracle install fails during make test:

Can't load '/root/.cpan/build/DBD-Oracle-1.80-1/blib/arch/auto/DBD/Oracle/Oracle.so' for module DBD::Oracle: libnsl.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory at /usr/lib64/perl5/DynaLoader.pm line 193.
 at -e line 1.
Compilation failed in require at -e line 1. 

fortunately it’s still in the repo, so yum install libnsl fixes it.

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Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
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