Bug with Oracle 10.2.0.2 for Solaris 64bit

FYI
I just found out why DBD::Oracle will not work out of the box or on a
compile on a Solaris 64bit computers form HP.

Seems there is a bug in Oracle (What??? never happens?? yeah right!) the bug
number is 5389730. Seem that our friends
at Oracle forgot to add a flie to a makefile into the 10.2.0.2 Solaris x86
patchset :-). so parts are missing when you try to connect with 32bit perl.

With DBD::Oracle out of the box you will get a error like this when you try
to connect

DBI connect('','DBUSER@ADATABASE.SOMEPLACE',...) failed: ORA-12154:
TNS:could not resolve the connect identifier specified (DBD ERROR:
OCIServerAttach) at test.pl line 31

If you try to compile DBD::Oracle you may see this error

*** Error code 139
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `lib/Config.pod'

Hope this helps someone out-there

Cheers
John Scoles

Re: Bug with Oracle 10.2.0.2 for Solaris 64bit

In message <20061019145504.8619.qmail@lists.develooper.com>, "John Scoles" writ
es:
>Seems there is a bug in Oracle (What??? never happens?? yeah right!) the bug
>number is 5389730. Seem that our friends
>at Oracle forgot to add a flie to a makefile into the 10.2.0.2 Solaris x86
>patchset :-). so parts are missing when you try to connect with 32bit perl.

There's nothing to smile about in that Bug No.

Oracle has a patch for 10.2.0.1, but has refused to create the
official patch for 10.2.0.2 since August.

The interim patch for 10.2.0.2 that my support engineer provided
does work and DBD::Oracle runs fine, but the experience definitely
left me wondering why I renew our support contract with Oracle
every year.

John
groenveld@acm.org