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On 2008-02-19 10:22:21 -0800, Jonathan Leffler wrote: > On Feb 19, 2008 10:04 AM, Capacio, Paula J <PCAPACIO@amfam.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > I am getting the following error from make (excerpt only full list > > follows) [...] > > ld: Unrecognized argument: > > -Wl,+b/usr/oracle/client/10.2/lib:/usr/oracle/client/10.2/rdbms/lib > > Fatal error. > > *** Error exit code 1 > > > > > Nasty - especially since you're not a C programmer. > > Systems that build Perl using 'ld' directly as the way to build shared > objects give me the heebie-jeebies each time - and your Perl appears to have > been built that way. The '-Wl,+b...' notation is an instruction to the C > compiler to pass the '+b...' to the loader; the loader itself doesn't know > how to deal with -Wl options. > > We can debate whether this is a bug in DBD::Oracle or not - or a bug in the > way Perl was built on your machine. Since Perl mainly works OK and > DBD::Oracle doesn't, I'd be more inclined to say DBD::Oracle is at fault, > but DBD::Informix (which I know a lot better than DBD::Oracle) faces roughly > similar issues and my recommendation is to build Perl so it uses the C > compiler to build shared objects rather than using 'ld' (or /usr/bin/ld) > directly. I second that recommendation. Paula seems to use an Activestate perl: > > nfig_heavy=Config_dynamic.pl -Dcf_by=ActiveState > > -Dcf_email=support@ActiveState. > > com' At least on PA-RISC, perl needs to be built in a special way (described on README.hpux) to be able to use DBD::Oracle. The perl interpreter shipped with HP-UX isn't built that way and while I don't know about the ActiveState perl interpreter, I suspect that it isn't either. So I would recommend to always build your own perl on HP-UX (preferrably with the HP C/ANSI-C compiler). hp -- _ | Peter J. Holzer | If I wanted to be "academically correct", |_|_) | Sysadmin WSR | I'd be programming in Java. | | | hjp@wsr.ac.at | I don't, and I'm not. __/ | http://www.hjp.at/ | -- Jesse Erlbaum on dbi-usersThread Previous