RE: dbd::oracle 1.16 failing t/50cursor.t line 91

On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, Young, Dave wrote:

> I am very new to perl. I am trying to upgrade our perl which was
> installed 3 years ago by a person no longer with the company.
> I have been closely following instructions in README and README.hpux
> for perl 5.8.7, dbi 1.49 and dbd::oracle 1.16
> as well as instructions left by the person who did the install 3 years
> ago. BUT, I am stuck on the make test process for the dbd module.
>
>
> I am getting the following the error whether I compile against an Oracle
> 9.2.0.5 or an Oracle 10.1.0.4
> .....
> Can't bind a reference (DBI::st=HASH(0x401f40d4)) at t/50cursor.t line
> 91.

This is a known problem which is fixed with DBI 1.50, available from
CPAN for a few days now.

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Michael