Re: Issue with perl, DBD::Oracle, Solaris 10

In message <844b8e1c0710290545l722b53c9kcb82118924e0c8e1@mail.gmail.com>, "Jona
than Leffler" writes:
>Did you build this Perl? Do you have a Sun C compiler on the machine?
>
>Building shared objects with the C compiler is common practice many places
>and standard practice on Solaris.
>
>The most usual problems people have is that they do not have a Sun C
>compiler on the machine at all, or they only have /usr/ucb/cc (which is
>found but doesn't compile anything). The fix is to get the Sun C compiler
>-- or rebuild Perl with GCC (and have GCC on the machine), or obtain a Perl
>build with GCC.

The Sun compilers can be downloaded here:


I recommend that the OP build his own Perl from source for his
application regardless which compiler he uses.

John
groenveld@acm.org