DBD::Oracle on AIX 5.1
I finally had the opportunity the other day to try and install DBD::Oracle on an IBM AIX 5.1 box, and for once I have some good news to tell.
Anyone who has ever tried this will know of some of the troubles I speak of. When dealing with DBI and any DBD on a AIX box, you either must either be lucky enough to have the same compiler installed that built the version of Perl that comes with the box (I have never seen this happen); or you have to spend a great deal of time downloading and installing your own GCC and the building your own version of Perl.
Fortunately, all the hard work was done for me by other members of my team, and I was only a Johnny-come-lately to the whole process.
In our case, these are the steps that we followed:
- get a working version of GCC on the box
- rebuild and install your own version of Perl
- build and install DBI using your local version of Perl
All of the above worked without a major problem. It was only when we tried to build DBD::Oracle that we ran into a problem:
